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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹɑːnt͡ʃ/
• (General American, without æ-raising) IPA: /ˈɹænt͡ʃ/, [ˈɹʷænt͡ʃ]
  • (æ-raising) IPA: /ˈɹeə̯nt͡ʃ/, [ˈɹʷeə̯nt͡ʃ]; /ˈɹɛə̯nt͡ʃ/, [ˈɹʷɛə̯nt͡ʃ]
• 韻: -ɑːntʃ, -æntʃ
• ハイフネーション: ranch

名詞

ranch (countable and uncountable, plural ranches)

1. A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.
   • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:

     There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”

2. A small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock, especially one in the Southwestern United States.
3. A house or property on a plot of ranch land.
4. (uncountable) Ranch dressing.

派生語

動詞

ranch (third-person singular simple present ranches, present participle ranching, simple past and past participle ranched)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To operate a ranch; to engage in ranching.

   Formally the widow still ranches, but in fact she leaves all ranching to the foreman.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To work on a ranch.

   Bill had ranched only five years when his dad made him foreman.