different between rancher vs husbandman

English

Etymology

From ranch +? -er.

Noun

rancher (plural ranchers)

1. A person who operates a ranch.
2. (US, real estate) A ranch-style house.
   • 1987, E. C. Relph, The Modern Urban Landscape: 1880 to the Present (page 174)

     By the 1960s in North America sprawling ranchers and backsplits with attached garages had become common […]

   • 2009, Thomas Collins, How to Invest in Real Estate (page 21)

     We know that if a realtor got a listing for a rancher in the neighborhood of property one: that similar houses there will sell, with some effort, for about $59,000.

Translations

See also

• ranchgirl
• ranchboy
• ranchman
• ranchwoman

Danish

Etymology 1

From English rancher.

Noun

rancher c (singular definite rancheren, plural indefinite ranchere or ranchers)

1. rancher (person who operates a ranch)

Declension

Etymology 2

See ranch.

Noun

rancher

1. indefinite plural of ranch

English

Etymology

From Middle English husbandman, husbondman, equivalent to husband +? -man.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?zb?ndm?n/

Noun

husbandman (plural husbandmen)

1. a person who raises crops and tends animals; a farmer
   • 1606 The xviii day of May in the fourth yeare of the Raigne of the kinge most excellent Monarche and in the year of our lord god 1606 I Thomas Knages of Lythe within the county of york husbandman sicke in body but whole in mynde and in perfect remembrance praised be to god do make and ordayne this my last will and testament in manner and forme following . . - The last will and testament of Thomas Knages (1533-1606)
   • 1684 Thomas Tusser, born at Riven-hall, was successively a Musician, School-master, Serving-man, and a Speculative Husbandman; - Anglorum Speculum: Or The Worthies of England, in Church and State - Thomas Fuller
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XVII, The beginnings

     Valiant Wisdom tilling and draining; escorted by owl-eyed Pedantry, by owlish and vulturish and many other forms of Folly; — the valiant husbandman assiduously tilling; the blind greedy enemy too assiduously sowing tares!

   • 1844 The husbandman must labour before he receives the fruits - Works ... - Jean Calvin

Related terms

• husbandry