rancher

rancher

English

Etymology

From ranch +‎ -er.

Noun

rancher (plural ranchers)

1. A person who operates a ranch.
2. (US, real estate) A ranch-style house, a ranchhouse.
   • 1987, E. C. Relph, The Modern Urban Landscape: 1880 to the Present (page 174)

     By the 1960s in North America sprawling ranchers and backsplits with attached garages had become common […]

   • 2009, Thomas Collins, How to Invest in Real Estate (page 21)

     We know that if a realtor got a listing for a rancher in the neighborhood of property one: that similar houses there will sell, with some effort, for about $59,000.

Translations

person who operates a ranch

Danish: rancher c Greek: Ancient: κτηνοτρόφος m (ktēnotróphos) Latin: pecuārius m

See also

• ranchgirl
• ranchboy
• ranchman
• ranchwoman

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Danish

Etymology 1

From English rancher.

Noun

rancher c (singular definite rancheren, plural indefinite ranchere or ranchers)

1. rancher (person who operates a ranch)

Declension

Declension of rancher

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rancher	rancheren	ranchere ranchers	rancherne
genitive	ranchers	rancherens	rancheres ranchers'	ranchernes

Etymology 2

See ranch.

Noun

rancher

1. indefinite plural of ranch