单词 | rancho |
释义 | ranchon. 1. a. In Latin or Spanish America: a hut or shed, or a group of these, put up for the accommodation of travellers; (hence in extended use) a roadhouse or inn. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > inn guest housec1000 innc1230 hostry1377 host1382 harbergeryc1384 hostelc1384 hostelryc1386 harbergagea1400 hostelar1424 hostagec1440 innsc1550 host-house1570 fondaco1599 change1609 auberge1615 sporting house1615 albergo1617 rancho1648 change-housea1653 posada1652 public house1655 inn-house1677 funduq1684 locanda1770 fonda1777 livery tavern1787 roadhouse1806 meson1817 tambo1830 gasthaus1834 estalagem1835 caravanserai1848 temperance inna1849 sala1871 bush-inn1881 ryokan1914 B & B1918 pousada1949 minshuku1970 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc. schooleOE hospitalc1300 khanc1400 xenodochy?c1550 posting inn1556 vent1577 caravanserai1585 yam1587 serai1609 venta1610 post-house1611 xenodochium1612 imaret1613 seraglio1617 rancho1648 hospitium1650 watering-house1664 choultry1698 accommodation house1787 stage-house1788 spital1794 stand1805 resthouse1807 hospice1818 resting1879 stopping house1883 truck stop1961 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xv. 114 The night before I went to a Rancho (which is a lodge built for travellers to rest when the journey is long) which stood within a league of the Mountaine. 1807 Z. M. Pike Jrnl. 31 May in Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) iii. 260 Marched early and at nine o'clock arrived at a Rancho. 1846 G. Gardner Trav. Brazil 455 Ranchos are large sheds generally open at the sides..for the accommodation of travellers. 1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. 102 The Rancho represents the ‘Traveller's Bungalow’ lacking, however, cot, chair, and table. 1912 Z. S. Eldredge Beginnings of San Francisco I. ix. 203 On arriving at a rancho the traveler was received with joy and the best things were prepared for him. 1970 F. Egan El Dorado Trail 190 They stopped at a rancho during a storm and were able to rent a room for the night. b. In Latin America: a hut, hovel, or simple building. Also: a collection these, a hamlet or village. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] hulka1000 boothc1200 hull?c1225 lodge1290 hottea1325 holetc1380 tavern1382 scalea1400 schura1400 tugury1412 donjon?a1439 cabinc1440 coshc1490 cabinet1579 bully1598 crib1600 shed1600 hut1637 hovela1640 boorachc1660 barrack1686 bothy1750 corf1770 rancho1819 shanty1820 kraal1832 shelty1834 shackle1835 mia-mia1837 wickiup1838 caboose1839 chantier1849 hangar1852 caban1866 shebang1867 humpy1873 shack1878 hale1885 bach1927 jhuggi1927 favela1961 hokkie1973 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > village in countries other than England casal1511 clachana1530 rancheria1594 aldeia1609 stanitza1662 kraal1731 pettah1761 township1789 pueblo1808 rancho1819 kainga1820 aoul1828 bustee1834 obe1835 tref1841 kampong1844 mir1856 manyatta1905 lapa1909 shtetl1963 1819 Connecticut Courant 20 Apr. 1/5 ‘In a few hours,’ said he, ‘I can return with assistance, as the next rancho, or hut, is but little more than a league.’ 1820 W. Robinson Mem. Mexican Revol. 84 A collection of houses, be their number great or small, if there be not a church, is called a rancho. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. iv. 83 We took up our residence in the rancho, or hovel, of a old Spaniard. 1883 E. F. Knight Cruise of ‘Falcon’ I. xi. 181 Every native likes if possible to have a little wooden saint of his own in his rancho. 1913 Eng. Rev. Aug. 59 I saw the house, a mud and wattle rancho. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Mar. 214/2 To live in a mud ‘rancho’, eat frugally..was no hardship for this class of immigrant. 1978 Times 31 Oct. 7/6 The mass of the electorate..has flooded from the countryside to live in the shanty-towns known as ranchos. 2002 L. Stephen Zapata Lives! x. 269 It was a small rancho of families that worked on the surrounding haciendas. 2. In the western U.S. and Latin America: a farm, esp. a cattle farm; a ranch. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > cattle farm estantion1697 estancia1704 rancho1820 ranchito1829 ranch1831 ganaderia1860 spread1927 1820 W. Robinson Mem. Mexican Revol. 84 Rancho signifies a farm, or collection of peasant huts from one and upwards. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiv. 35 The nearest house, they told us, was a rancho, or cattle-farm, about three miles off. 1883 A. R. Gibbs Brit. Honduras 68 The district of Corozal..is dotted with ‘ranchos’ and ‘milpas’ upon which sugar, corn (maize), rice, ground provisions, and fruits, are raised. 1912 K. Coman Econ. Beginnings Far West 63 There were extensive proprietors who had their ranchos scattered over half the province, in some cases amounting to..five hundred thousand head of sheep. 1941 R. G. Cleland Cattle on Thousand Hills iv. 87 The semiarid character of most of the range land in southern California made the large rancho an economic necessity. 1990 Nature Conservancy Sept. 18/1 The only reason they allowed the ranchos to exist at all was to raise horses for the Comanches to steal. 3. A meal of a traditional Mexican variety; (also) the constituents of such a meal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > stewed meat stewpot1542 estew1566 fricassee1568 ragout1652 pepperpot1698 grenade1706 haricot1706 pupton1706 lobscouse1707 stew1756 puchero1802 granada1806 bredie1815 muddle1833 scouse1840 slum1847 hashmagandy1851 ropa vieja1855 chilli con carne1857 sorpotel1863 goulash1866 daube1877 paprikash1877 chilli1886 pot-pie1890 slumgullion1902 cholent1903 cracker-hash1904 cracker-stew1909 gippo1914 waterzooi1915 Fanny Adams1921 adobo1938 cassoulet1940 feijoada1941 coddle1942 stifado1950 rancho1957 tinga1964 1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble iii. 45 Rancho, usually some form of stew, was at half past twelve... And, at six-thirty, the evening rancho. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 17 July 10/1 Most of the population are able to eat the rancho—the Mexican native meals—because it is very good. 1999 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 565 211/1 He organizes and obtains the ranchos, or food and refreshments, for his battalion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1648 |
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