ranchette

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noun

A small ranch or large home lot, often on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area and just past the planned neighborhoods, consisting of 40 acres and a house and possibly a barn or other outbuildings.

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Meanings

nounranchette (plural ranchettes)

plural ranchettes

  1. A small ranch or large home lot, often on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area and just past the planned neighborhoods, consisting of 40 acres and a house and possibly a barn or other outbuildings.

    There are trace elements of ranchettes all the way to St. Cloud, the Stearns County seat.

    2001 August 26, Garrison Keillor, “In Search of Lake Wobegon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin

From ranch + -ette.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

ranchette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ranchette

MLA

“ranchette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ranchette. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ranchette,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ranchette.

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