Rancher
noun
noun ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who operates a ranch.
- 2 a person who owns or operates a ranch wordnet
- 3 A ranch-style house. US
"By the 1960s in North America sprawling ranchers and backsplits with attached garages had become common […]"
Example
More examples"Thus we have the spectacle, still to be seen today, of the western rancher who accepts federal aid for his cattle operations and federal aid for his grazing requirements, but bitterly opposes all social programs that do not concern him, and the philosophy that lies behind them."
Etymology
From ranch + -er.
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