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say it: ranch
ranch is a noun and verb meaning "farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
manage or run a ranch
“Her husband is ranching in Arizona”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ranch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.