ranch house

Definition of ranch housenext

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Recent Examples of ranch house In the kitchen of a modest Victorian ranch house in Northern California, there sits a small round table. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026 Today, accommodations include casita rooms, suites, and a ranch house, outfitted with tile floors, exposed wood beams, and private in-room fireplaces. Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2026 Viewed from the street, the house actually is pretty unremarkable — a mid-size, split-level, midcentury ranch house, built in a style that became pretty ubiquitous in the California suburbs in the post-World War II era. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026 His staff often has to yank him out of his ranch house in Austin to get on the road. Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ranch house
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranch house
Noun
  • For years, a standard part of renovating a town house was bringing the basement kitchen up, to the former dining room, near the living room.
    The Editors of AD, Architectural Digest, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The home here is a ramshackle London town house where a famed painter, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen), is spending his final years in a haze of creative stagnation and lingering renown.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Netflix series Adolescence starts with a police SWAT team conducting a dawn raid on a modest tract house in the north of England.
    Martha Bayles, National Review, 24 July 2025
  • General Electric fills those tract houses with appliances.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 June 2024
Noun
  • Set the scene The 12-bedroom property, hidden discreetly behind high walls, feels like a mini country manor house, furnished with seven generous suites and five garden pavilions housing more modest, colorful cottage bedrooms.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Two girls born on the same day in a manor house see their lives altered by an act of revenge that changes their place within a powerful family.
    Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The property, near Saguaro National Park East, offers villas that are perfect for bigger groups, as well as four Conestoga wagons with pillow-top beds, air conditioning and access to the ranch’s amenities.
    Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 27 Apr. 2026
  • According to his sister La Toya Jackson in her 2011 book Starting Over, the ranch served to recapture the typical childhood that the singer never got to live out.
    Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Pink, purple, red, white, yellow Cosmos are a cottage classic that are notoriously low-maintenance and hardy.
    Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 26 Apr. 2026
  • This historic cottage along Hulbert Avenue is in a prime position—across from the beach, a ten-minute stroll to town, and, in direct view of the Great Point Lighthouse from the mahogany deck.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2026

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“Ranch house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ranch%20house. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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