rancher

plural ranchers

1. A person who operates a ranch.

   That story begins in rural Wyoming in 1963, when drifters Ennis and Jack are hired by a local rancher to herd sheep through grazing ground on the titular Brokeback Mountain.

   2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2025

2. USbusinessA ranch-style house.

   By the 1960s in North America sprawling ranchers and backsplits with attached garages had become common […]

   1987, E. C. Relph, The Modern Urban Landscape: 1880 to the Present, page 174

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   We know that if a realtor got a listing for a rancher in the neighborhood of property one: that similar houses there will sell, with some effort, for about $59,000.

   2009, Thomas Collins, How to Invest in Real Estate, page 21

   Synonyms: ranchhouse