ranch house

noun

1
: the main dwelling house on a ranch
2
: a one-story house typically with a low-pitched roof and an open plan

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There was also an old two-story ranch house of stucco with yellow trim. David Quammen, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024 It had been assembled by hand, after all, not in a white-walled lab in Los Alamos, but in a small, vacant ranch house just a few miles away. Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024 He’s eased himself into a director’s chair in the sunny living room of a ranch house on his rural weekend property in California’s Ventura County, a working lemon farm that’s also home to some 20 horses with names like Sir Heinrich VH. Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024 Taschen left the reimagining of the ranch house entirely in the hands of Pardo, with no preconceived conceptual directive and no prescribed program beyond the utilitarian. Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ranch house 

Word History

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of ranch house was in 1859

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“Ranch house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ranch%20house. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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ranch house

noun
1
: the main house on a ranch
2
: a one-story house usually with a low-pitched roof

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