rancho

Borrowed from Spanish rancho (“mess, mess room”). Compare ranch.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑːnt͡ʃoʊ/
• Hyphenation: ran‧cho

rancho (plural ranchos or ranchoes) (US, regional, archaic)

1. A simple hut, such as one with posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm workers would lodge at night.
2. 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.

• “rancho”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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

Inherited from Spanish rancho.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrant͡ʃo/, [ˈrãɲ.t͡ʃo]
• Hyphenation: ran‧cho

rancho

1. ranch

   Synonym: ranchería

• IPA^(key): /ˈrant͡ʃo/ [ˈranʲ.t͡ʃʊ]
• Rhymes: -antʃo

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rancho m (plural ranchos)

1. piglet

   Synonyms: bácoro, leitón, lercho

Borrowed from Spanish rancho

rancho m (plural ranchos)

1. mess (food set for a group of people); especially in jail, military

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rancho”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rancho”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rancho”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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/

• Audio:

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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

Borrowed from Spanish rancho, from Old French se ranger (“to be quartered, take up a position”).

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ʃu

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

• “rancho”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “rancho”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• 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. 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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4. (nautical) crew's quarters

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

rancho

1. first-person singular present indicative of ranchar

• “rancho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024