Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dude ranch

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English

Syllables: dude ranch
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of guest ranch.

Example Sentences

"‘Is this Scott Lawson's dude ranch?’ soberly inquired the rider of the pinto."
"1956, P. G. Wodehouse, 'French Leave', Barrie & Jenkins, London: 1974, p 125. ...I didn't get on very well with my stepmother, so I cleared off and went to America. I was there several years, doing various jobs. I was on the waterfront for a time, and I worked on a dude ranch and went prospecting with a friend of mine in the Mojave desert and ... oh, lots of things. When the war broke out, I was a waiter at a New York hotel."
"I spent four summers from the age of 18 working as the baker of the HF Bar dude ranch situated at the base of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming."

Etymology

From dude (“a tourist, a dandy”) + ranch. First use appears c. 1899, in the Bismarck Tribune.

Inflected Forms

dude ranches (plural)

Phrases

dude rancher

Synonyms

guest ranch

Questions

What does dude ranch mean?: Synonym of guest ranch.
Where does dude ranch come from?: From dude (“a tourist, a dandy”) + ranch. First use appears c. 1899, in the Bismarck Tribune.

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