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# rancher

«rancher» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who owns or runs a ranch, a very large farm…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a rancher, ranchers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who owns or runs a ranch, a very large farm, mainly in the USA, Canada and Australia, where cattle, sheep or horses are raised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rancher/#m1)

2) (US) A ranch-style house: a long, low house on one floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rancher/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons ranchers raise animals on wide grasslands; in stories and westerns ranchers ride horses and drive cattle. Phrases: «cattle rancher», «sheep rancher», «a rancher in Texas».

### examples

- The rancher rode out to check his cattle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rancher/#x1)
- Ranchers in Montana raise cattle on huge open lands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rancher/#x2)
- In Australia a rancher is usually called a grazier or station owner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rancher/#x3)
- The rancher fixed the fence before winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rancher/#x4)
- Ranchers need water for their animals in dry summers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rancher/#x5)
- My uncle is a rancher in Alberta. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rancher/#x6)

### note

Countable: rancher, ranchers. Related: ranch. In Australia people say «station» for a big farm and «grazier» or «pastoralist» for the farmer; in the UK and Ireland, «farmer» is used.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rancher» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rancher/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.