rancho

Spanish, properly, a mess, mess room. Compare ranch.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑːnt͡ʃoʊ/

rancho (plural ranchos or ranchoes)

1. (US, regional) A simple hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm workers may lodge at night.
2. (US, regional) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.
   • 1840, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast:

     The nearest house, they told us, was a rancho, or cattle-farm, about three miles off.

• ranchero

• Anchor, Charon, achorn, anchor, archon, noarch

From Spanish rancho.

rancho

1. ranch

   Synonym: ranchería

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish rancho, deverbal of rancharse (“to get ready, to settle in a place”); 16th century military terminology from French se ranger (“to arrange onself”), from rang (“row, line”), from Frankish *hring.

• IPA^(key): /ˈran.t͡ʃo/
• Rhymes: -antʃo
• Hyphenation: ràn‧cho

rancho m (plural ranchos)

1. settlement
2. ranch (small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock)

• rancio

• rancho in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish rancho.

• IPA^(key): /ˈran.t͡ʂɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ant͡ʂɔ
• Syllabification: ran‧cho

rancho n

1. (agriculture) Alternative spelling of ranczo

or

Indeclinable.

• rancho in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rancho in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old French se ranger (“to be quartered, take up a position”).

rancho m (plural ranchos)

1. hut; rancho (primitive house)

   Synonym: casebre

2. mess (food set for a group of people); especially in jail
3. a group of people doing something together
4. ranch (large plot for livestock); especially one in the western United States
5. (carnaval) a representation of the pastoral lifestyle

• IPA^(key): /ˈrant͡ʃo/ [ˈrãnʲ.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -antʃo
• Syllabification: ran‧cho

Deverbal from rancharse (“to get ready, to settle in a place”); 16th century military terminology from French se ranger (“to arrange onself”), from rang (“row, line”), from Frankish *hring.

rancho m (plural ranchos)

1. ranch
2. shed, barn
3. grotty grub
4. mess (mealtime)
   • 1926, Roberto Arlt, “El juguete rabioso”, in El juguete rabioso:

     A la hora del rancho, chapoteando en el barro, nos acercamos a las ollas hediondas de comida.

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5. (nautical) crew's quarters

• → Catalan: ranxo
• → English: ranch
  • → German: Ranch
• → Polish: ranczo

rancho

1. first-person singular present indicative of ranchar

• “rancho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014