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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The Turkey Track Ranch has three of its own ranch houses, while The Wooden Rifle Unit features a main house, a bunkhouse, a shop, a storage building, a barn, and corrals.
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2025
By 1984, with help from Genevieve Brooks’s organization, families were moving into ranch houses on the former rubble field where Carter had once stood—wildflowers blooming in the burn scar.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
The centerpiece of the property is a 2,300-square-foot ranch house, surrounded by a caretaker’s home, a barn, a four-car garage, sheds and corrals.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 16 Aug. 2025
So Jax left the reunion and walked out into the studio parking lot, the sun setting over the short ranch houses of Los Angeles casting overly long shadows.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2025
By 1984, with help from Genevieve Brooks’s organization, families were moving into ranch houses on the former rubble field where Carter had once stood—wildflowers blooming in the burn scar.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
The centerpiece of the property is a 2,300-square-foot ranch house, surrounded by a caretaker’s home, a barn, a four-car garage, sheds and corrals.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 16 Aug. 2025
So Jax left the reunion and walked out into the studio parking lot, the sun setting over the short ranch houses of Los Angeles casting overly long shadows.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ranch house
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“Ranch house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ranch%20house. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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