Noun: rancher
| Singular | rancher |
| Plural | ranchers |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like rancher
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English ranch
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
4. Proto-Italic *-āzios
5. Latin -āriusnom.
6. Latin -āriusbor.
7. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
8. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
9. Old English -ere
10. Middle English -ere
11. English -er
12. English rancher
13. From ranch + -er.
Verbs referencing "rancher"
Danish Nouns
rancher, Polish Nouns
ranczer.