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RANCHER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rancher mean?
• RANCHER (noun)
The noun RANCHER has 1 sense:
1. a person who owns or operates a ranch
Familiarity information: RANCHER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who owns or operates a ranch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("rancher" is a kind of...):
farmer; granger; husbandman; sodbuster (a person who operates a farm)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rancher"):
grazier (a rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market)
Derivation:
ranch (manage or run a ranch)
Context examples
Inoffensive ranchers in remote valleys were held up by armed men and compelled to identify themselves.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The boreholes allow ranchers to use arid areas once grazed only in wet years.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
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