cattle ranch
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈkætəl rænʧ/
- US
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rancho ganadero
- It was at the peace ceremony held on one of the large cattle ranches in Osage County in northeastern Oklahoma.
But so we do point and you know, there was like all those cattle ranches and shit out there, right?
- But so we do point and you know, there was like all those cattle ranches and shit out there, right?
Examples
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Don and Charles had just been hired by a big cattle ranch in the Fouke area.
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I spent a lot of time that summer working on a friend's cattle ranch, making $1.00 an hour.
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We own a cattle ranch.
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This is a cattle ranch, not an oil field.
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Well, I was born on a cattle ranch, spent my youth on a cattle ranch.
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We live on a working cattle ranch, and sometimes things get a bit hairy.
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She grew up on a cattle ranch in Colorado and she was born to write music.
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Two decades ago, Kester paid the IRS $2 million when he inherited a 22,000-acre cattle ranch from his grandfather.
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Before the great Gold Rush began, the land on which Cripple Creek now stands was part of a cattle ranch (Womack Ranch).
Academic text (1994) -
Don and Charles had just been hired by a big cattle ranch in the Fouke area.
Synonyms
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1.9
A large farm where people raise cattle or horses
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5.2
A large area of land used for farming or raising animals
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3.5
Land used for keeping animals like cows and horses
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1.6
A farm where cows are raised for meat, milk or other products
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is transparently derived from combining 'cattle' (livestock) with 'ranch' (a large farm), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a ranch where cattle are raised. This noun–noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and follows straightforward English compounding, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
The name cattle ranch comes from the simple picture of a wide piece of land used to keep cattle. A ranch was a place where people looked after animals and moved them over open land, so cattle ranch means 'a large farm for raising cattle'.