rancho

noun

plural ranchos

Examples of rancho in a Sentence

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All eyes were on this new artist, who had modernized a música Mexicana subgenre that was mainly popular in the Northern regions of Mexico, and played in the rancho. Griselda Flores, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2025 My abuelo grew up in a rancho in Río Grande, in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, where his family lived off the land, eating corn, squash, beans, chiles and nopales. Paola Briseño-Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024 Originally part of a vast Mexican rancho and later a 160-acre ranch, Wake Robin rests beside the merging Sonoma and Graham creeks and was transformed into a lodge during the 1890s by Joshua Chauvet. Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2024 This sets the scene for a project that includes 75 rancho estates on six-acre plots of land, roughly half of which have already been sold, as well as the first Six Senses resort in Mexico. Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for rancho

Word History

Etymology

Mexican Spanish, small ranch

First Known Use

1820, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of rancho was in 1820

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“Rancho.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rancho. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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