RANCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ranch mean? 

• RANCH (noun)
  The noun RANCH has 1 sense:

1. farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)

  Familiarity information: RANCH used as a noun is very rare.

• RANCH (verb)
  The verb RANCH has 1 sense:

1. manage or run a ranch

  Familiarity information: RANCH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RANCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cattle farm; cattle ranch; ranch; spread

Hypernyms ("ranch" is a kind of...):

farm (workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit)

Derivation:

ranch (manage or run a ranch)

• RANCH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ranch    ... he / she / it ranches   
Past simple: ranched   
Past participle: ranched   
-ing form: ranching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Manage or run a ranch

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

Her husband is ranching in Arizona

Hypernyms (to "ranch" is one way to...):

farm (be a farmer; work as a farmer)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

ranch (farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle))

rancher (a person who owns or operates a ranch)

ranching (farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle))

 Context examples 

He'll know a good milk-ranch when he sees one.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"The shift from traditional pastoralism to borehole-dependent ranching, however, has resulted in the degradation of the Kalahari," says D'Odorico.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

Domesticated bovine animals usually kept on a farm or ranch and used for the production of meat or dairy products or for heavy labor.

(Cow, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This moved him to gratitude, and he murmured to himself, "Maria, you getta da milka ranch, all righta, all right."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It will be a first-class milk ranch—everything complete.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For that matter, if you find a good man, you can marry and take it easy while he runs the ranch.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)