ranch house
noun
1
: the main dwelling house on a ranch
2
: a one-story house typically with a low-pitched roof and an open plan
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At the end of July 2022, the two bought a small ranch house in Marmora, N.J., a few miles from the beaches of Ocean City.
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Jenny Block, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
The free-standing ranch houses make this property the perfect multi-generational getaway or group trip paradise.
—Sierra Redmond, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
There was also an old two-story ranch house of stucco with yellow trim.
—David Quammen, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
It had been assembled by hand, after all, not in a white-walled lab in Los Alamos, but in a small, vacant ranch house just a few miles away.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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Jenny Block, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
The free-standing ranch houses make this property the perfect multi-generational getaway or group trip paradise.
—Sierra Redmond, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
There was also an old two-story ranch house of stucco with yellow trim.
—David Quammen, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
It had been assembled by hand, after all, not in a white-walled lab in Los Alamos, but in a small, vacant ranch house just a few miles away.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Ranch house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ranch%20house. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.
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