dude ranch

noun

a holiday resort offering ranch activities (riding and camping)

• Hypernyms: ↑resort, ↑resort hotel, ↑holiday resort

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noun

: a ranch or resort for vacationers offering primarily horseback riding and other activities typical of western ranches

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a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.

[1905-10]

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dude ranch noun

A ranch run as a holiday resort or for training in ranching

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Main Entry: ↑dude

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dude ranch UK US noun [countable] [singular dude ranch plural dude ranches]

a very large farm in the western US or Canada where people go on holiday to ride horses and do activities such as hiking (=walking in the countryside) http://www.macmillandictionary.com/med2cd/weblinks/dude-ranch.htm

Thesaurus: types of hotel or guest house_hyponym

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dude ranch,

a ranch run as a tourist resort.

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n. (in the western U.S.) a cattle ranch converted to a vacation resort for tourists

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noun, pl ⋯ ranches [count]

: a large farm especially in the western U.S. where people on vacation can ride horses and do other activities that cowboys typically do

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ˈdude ranch f17 [dude ranch] noun

an American ↑ranch (= a large farm) where people can go on holiday/vacation and do the sort of activities that ↑cowboys do From an old meaning of the word dude, a man from the city who wears fashionable clothes.