ranch house

noun

Definition of ranch housenext
as in town house

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Recent Examples of ranch house The property includes the Fiddyment family’s ranch house, a brick cooler and smokehouse dating to about 1880, a garage built around 1950 and historic landscaping. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Participants will also get to interact with the goats and tour the historic ranch house. — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026 Julie Andrews and husband Blake Edwards lived for twenty years in a ranch house on the site, according to Vanity Fair. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 1 Aug. 2026 Jenlyn and Larry Boyer, for instance, have lived in their ranch house in suburban Broomfield, Colorado, for 31 years and never want to leave. — Paula Span, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for ranch house
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranch house
  1. town house
  2. tract house
  3. manor house
  4. ranch
  5. cottage
Noun
  • The film opens in an Upper East Side town house, where a woman decorating her Christmas tree discovers a Tiffany Blue Box dated December 1992.
    — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • For the primary bathroom of Elsesser’s Brooklyn town house, Rockwell and colleague Hester Hodde layered burgundy Rosso Francia marble, walnut-and-mirror paneling, and pistachio-green walls.
    — Kristen Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of town house
Noun
  • Built by renowned architect Roger Scott on a deep lot, the property leans more toward forest cabin than tract house.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In 2017, my family and I bought our house in the Palisades—a 1950s tract house on the same street as three of our friends.
    — Juliana Shallcross, AFAR Media, 29 Jan. 2026
Definition of tract house
Noun
  • Beech used two different locations to create the vast manor house.
    — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The property’s manor house, once a Goddard College library and event space, now serves as a rehearsal space for the Goddard Institute of Dramatic Arts.
    — Olivia Fletcher, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of manor house
Noun
  • McCollum spent summers working cattle, branding steers and tending to his grandfather's ranch alongside his cousins.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The horses panicked after a tree limb fell and hit the side of the wagon, ranch officials said on social media Saturday.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of ranch
Noun
  • With a rustic aesthetic, the cottage is charming and artsy, with antique finds from the owners' travels around the world.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Twenty-one bunnies lived with their mother in a little cottage, and all of them had special jobs.
    — Madeline ffitch, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of cottage

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