Definition of "ranch" []

• An extensive farm, especially in the western United States, on which large herds of cattle, sheep, or horses are raised. (noun)
• A large farm on which a particular crop or kind of animal is raised: a mink ranch. (noun)
• A house in which the owner of an extensive farm lives. (noun)
• To manage or work on a ranch. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I have always thought how wonderful it would be to have a big old ranch house *meaning a house on a ranch, not a 3-2 postwar ranch* and build smaller houses out back for my folks, her folks, etc."
• "ahh he stole the idea from a guy in texas who has the 'cadillac ranch'..it's nothing but cadd's all up ended all over his ranch..."
• "The dipping of pizza (and many other foods) in ranch is prevalent in both!"