- an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- a large farm used primarily to raise one kind of crop or animal: a mink ranch.
- a dude ranch.
- the persons employed or living on a ranch.
- ranch house.
- ranch dressing: I’ll have the small salad, with ranch on the side.
- to manage or work on a ranch.
- a large tract of land, esp one in North America, together with the necessary personnel, buildings, and equipment, for rearing livestock, esp cattle
- any large farm for the rearing of a particular kind of livestock or crop
- the buildings, land, etc, connected with it
- to manage or run a ranch
- to raise (animals) on or as if on a ranch
