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rancho
English
Etymology
Spanish, properly, a mess, mess room. Compare ranch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????nt?o?/
Noun
rancho (plural ranchos or ranchoes)
- (US, regional) A simple hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm workers may lodge at night.
- (US, regional) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
Anagrams
- Anchor, Charon, achorn, anchor, archon, noarch
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish rancho, deverbal of rancharse (“to get ready, to settle in a place”); 16th century military terminology from French se ranger (“to arrange onself”), from rang (“row, line”), from Frankish *hring.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ran.t??o/
- Rhymes: -ant?o
- Hyphenation: ràn?cho
Noun
rancho m (plural ranchos)
- settlement
- ranch (small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock)
Related terms
- rancio
References
- rancho in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ran.t???/
Noun
rancho n
- Alternative spelling of ranczo.
Declension
or
Indeclinable.
Further reading
- rancho in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- rancho in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old French se ranger (“to be quartered, take up a position”).
Noun
rancho m (plural ranchos)
- hut; rancho (primitive house)
- Synonym: casebre
- mess (food set for a group of people); especially in jail
- a group of people doing something together
- ranch (large plot for livestock); especially one in the western United States
- (carnaval) a representation of the pastoral lifestyle
Spanish
Etymology
Deverbal of rancharse (“to get ready, to settle in a place”); 16th century military terminology from French se ranger (“to arrange onself”), from rang (“row, line”), from Frankish *hring.
Noun
rancho m (plural ranchos)
- ranch
- shed, barn
- grotty grub
- (nautical) crew's quarters
Derived terms
- ranchera
- ranchería
- rancherío
- ranchero
Descendants
- ? Catalan: ranxo
- ? English: ranch
- ? German: Ranch
Further reading
- “rancho” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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slum
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sl?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Etymology 1
Early 19th century. Originally slang, in the sense "room", especially "backroom" [attested 1812]; of unknown origin.
Noun
slum (countable and uncountable, plural slums)
- (countable) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:slum
- 1855, Charles Dickens, "Gambling", in Household Words Volume 31
- Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge […] you will find groups of boys […] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber […]
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvi:
- I saw that most of those who were spending from eight to fifteen pounds monthly had the advantage of scholarships. I had before me examples of much simpler living. I came across a fair number of poor students living more humbly than I. One of them was staying in the slums in a room at two shillings a week and living on two pence worth of cocoa and bread per meal from Lockhart's cheap Cocoa Rooms.
- (slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
slum (third-person singular simple present slums, present participle slumming, simple past and past participle slummed)
- (intransitive) To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
Derived terms
- slum it
- slummer
Etymology 2
See slumgullion.
Noun
slum (uncountable)
- (slang) Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.
Further reading
- slum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Lums, MLUs, UMLS, lums
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?slum]
- Rhymes: -um
Noun
slum m
- slum (dilapidated neighborhood)
Further reading
- slum in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
slum m (definite singular slummen, indefinite plural slummar, definite plural slummane)
- a slum
References
- “slum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Westrobothnian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -???m
Noun
slum f (definite sluma)
- Old, sour and blue buttermilk without cream.
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