Definitions for ranches

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Spelling: [ranch]
IPA: /ræntʃ/

Ranches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in ranches (acehnrs).

Definitions for ranches

noun

  1. an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
  2. Chiefly Western U.S. and Canada. a large farm used primarily to raise one kind of crop or animal:
  3. a dude ranch.
  4. the persons employed or living on a ranch.
  5. ranch house.

verb (used without object)

  1. to manage or work on a ranch.

Origin of ranches

1800-10, Americanism; Spanish rancho rancho

Examples for ranches

On November 23, from his ranch in Texas, Johnson spoke on the phone with acting Secretary of State George Ball.

It was dark most of the way, and it was midnight when I got to the ranch.

Nimrod and I had been lured to the Cuttle Fish ranch to go on a wolf hunt.

The police nonetheless warned the hippies against trespassing, and for a long time it was again very quiet on the ranch at night.

Old Blake would give him work on his ranch over there, that was a cinch.

He does not remember exactly when they first moved onto the ranch.

He was tough, but the ranch horses of John Merchant came out from a night of rest.

Manson might get out, Spahn suggested, or there might still be people on the ranch who were loyal to him.

It's Bill that bled me, and bled me until I've had to soak a mortgage on the ranch.

My dad had worked for a while as a ranch hand, and his “Open Road” was a remnant of those days.

Word Value for ranches
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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