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ranchettes

ranchettes is the plural of ranchette.

Meaning of ranchette

Noun

ranchette (plural ranchettes)

  1. A small ranch or large home lot, often on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area and just past the planned neighborhoods, consisting of 40 acres and a house and possibly a barn or other outbuildings.
    • There are trace elements of ranchettes all the way to St. Cloud, the Stearns County seat.2001 August 26, Garrison Keillor, “In Search of Lake Wobegon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about ranchettes

What is ranchettes the plural of?
Ranchettes is the plural of ranchette.

Words near ranchettes in the dictionary

  1. ranchers
  2. ranchería
  3. rancherías
  4. ranches
  5. ranchette
  6. ranchettes
  7. ranchgirl
  8. ranchgirls
  9. ranchhand
  10. ranchhands
  11. ranchhouse

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