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ranchero

noun

Definition of ranchero

as in cowboy

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Recent Examples of ranchero Health inspectors gave the gas station a yellow placard after cheese pepperoni, ranchero steak and southwest chicken tornadoes on the roller grill measured outside of the temperature range considered safe. — Sacbee.com, 5 Dec. 2025 All of the performers are current and previous nominees, including Aguilar who received a nomination for best ranchero/mariachi album. — Thania Garcia, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025 Although the region’s agricultural history dates back to the 18th-century Spanish missionaries and, later, Mexican rancheros, modern winegrowing began in the 1960s with the establishment of Cilurzo Vineyards and Brookside Winery. — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025 Dipping sauce flavors include avocado ranch and spicy ranchero. — Maxwell Millington, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ranchero

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Noun

And while his animals could pass through the vehicle barriers, the cowboys herding them could not.

— Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Doing so, claims the personal knowledge that disciplinary training and structures like the vita elide and offers a bridge to more fully understand the grief and loss the families in the cowboy suit tragedy experienced.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of cowboy

Noun

Roosevelt observes that the cougars of his time are docile and timid, terrified of the rifle-bearing ranchman who had come to dominate their homelands.

— Declan Leary, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
This once summer residence of the Marquis de Mores—an Old West frontier ranchman—and his family includes many of their original furnishings.

— Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian, 6 June 2019

Definition of ranchman

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Waving a Mexican flag with a vaquero sombrero on, El Malilla made history at Coachella last year as the first reggaeton Mexa act on the lineup.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
But it was then followed up by a Spanish hymn, sung by musicians, dressed in 18th-century Spanish Colonial attire, including the garb of soldado, vaquero, pioneers, military, and indigenous peoples.

— Brian Hackney, CBS News, 30 June 2026

Definition of vaquero

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Avelino Delgado, a sixty-eight-year-old rancher who lives alone on his land, without an internet connection or a phone, belongs to this cohort.

— Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
After a rancher’s dog discovered a ferret colony in Wyoming, scientists rallied to save the species nearly undone by humans’ ravenous expansion.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of rancher

Noun

Junior vividly remembers his father struggling tirelessly to support the family as a campesino (agricultural worker), an electrician and more, while his mother, who had worked as a bank clerk in Mexico, cleaned hotel rooms despite her arthritis.

— Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2026
On May 12, a group of rural campesinos staged a peaceful protest to draw attention to threats of land eviction.

— Nelson Mauricio Rauda Zablah, Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2025

Definition of campesino

Noun

Eastwood portrayed Rowdy Yates, the young cowhand who eventually matures into a leader.

— Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026
Residents and visitors will line the streets to watch cowhands from various ranches herd more than 30 Longhorns through town, a tradition dating back to when the parade was a downtown cattle drive.

— CBS News, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026

Definition of cowhand

Noun

The picture-perfect cowman’s paradise of Stockyards City is true to its stripes—and nowhere is this more evident than in Cattlemen’s Steakhouse.

— Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025
The reply of my friend and hunting companion was one of those quaint, rasping epithets which only a cowman can manage when everything has gone wrong.

— Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025

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