ranch house
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3.0
- noun
- /ræntʃ haʊs/
- US
:
casa ranchera
- The architect designed a beautiful ranch house with a low-pitched roof and wide porch.
- three-bedroom ranch house
- bedroom ranch house
- brick ranch house
Examples
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Ed's in-laws live in a 1954 ranch house with all the original period details.
Fiction book (1996) -
The Manning place is your basic suburban ranch house, totally unexceptional.
Fiction book (1993) -
I thought it was a ranch house.
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I went down to the ranch house early to help her set up.
Fiction book (1991) -
I'm in the single family ranch house across the way.
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When Frank and Diane moved to the ranch house, they had taken all the best equipment with them.
Fiction book (1995) -
Tom pulls up to the ranch house in his truck, parks, and gets out.
Fiction book (1998) -
So, I bought a ranch house in Boulder, Colorado.
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When he moved out to Netivot, he built an impressive ranch house there.
Academic text (1990) -
There, in a grassy valley, stood the old ranch house, windows boarded up.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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5.8
A simple house on land where people raise animals or grow food
4
3.4
A house or room decorated in a simple country style with modern features
Antonyms
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Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'ranch' (a cattle farm) + 'house' (a dwelling) yields a house associated with or located on a ranch. While specific architectural connotations (single‑story, low roof) are extra encyclopedic detail, the core meaning is predictable from the constituents and would be understood by a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Ranch house comes from the simple homes people built on American ranch land, where they lived in long, low houses close to the ground. So today, ranch house means 'a single-story house with a low roof and a long, close-to-the-ground shape'.