Other forms: ranches
A ranch is a large farm for raising cattle or horses. A cattle ranch, work on the ranch, a ranch house.
It is American and Australian rather than British, where the equivalent is a station or simply a farm. A ranch house is a single-storey house in a style named after them, and ranch dressing is a dressing invented at one in California.
1nounranchA large farm for raising cattle or horses.
“They spent the summer working on a cattle ranch in Texas.”
ranch is a farm.
American Spanish rancho meant a group of farm huts, from a word for people who eat together.
Spanish
rancho — small farm, group of farm huts
English, today
ranch
Recorded since 1808, farm sense since 1831. From American Spanish rancho (“small farm, group of farm huts”), in Spanish originally “group of people who eat together." Cognate with English rank.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA