| 单词 | ranchette | 
| 释义 | ranchetten. U.S.  1.  A small ranch; a relatively large plot of land, esp. in a rural area, containing an individual dwelling, (now) esp. one formed by subdividing a large ranch. ΚΠ 1927    San Antonio 		(Texas)	 Express 1 Sept. 13/6 		(advt.)	  				Ranchette..600 acres. 1939    Los Angeles Times 6 Apr.  ii. 16/6  				John Litel has installed an elaborate underground sprinkling system on his six-acre Encino ranchette. 1974    H. S. Thompson Let. 5 Dec. in  Fear & Loathing in Amer. 		(2000)	 601  				The mesa above my house..is about to be zoned for 2-acre ‘ranchettes’, which makes the current price around $500,000. 1992    Prime Time 		(Albuquerque, New Mexico)	 Oct. 23/4  				Upscale types who fly into places like Montana and buy a 20-acre ranchette and build a little cabin to visit once or twice a year. 2004    New Yorker 26 July 77/1  				The widows dumped the cows and called up the real-estate brokers who sketched out thirty-five-acre ranchettes.  2.  A small ranch-style house; cf. ranch house n. (b) at ranch n.2 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > 			[noun]		 > house of specific shape or style hall-house1467 longhouse1643 bungalow1676 single housea1684 tower-house1687 villa1755 box1773 cottage orné1774 villarette1792 mews1805 cottage1808 terrace house1817 casita1822 villa dwelling1833 villa residence1833 box-house1846 six-roomer1853 terrace1854 tembe1860 moat house1871 parlour house1871 row house1871 salt-box1876 trullo1898 townhouse1900 colonial1903 semi1912 Cape Cod1916 bungaloid1927 semi-detached1928 ranchette1938 solar house1946 rambler1947 rancher1950 ranch1951 tunnel-back1957 sidesplit1958 two-up-and-two-downer1958 two-up two-down1958 semi-det1960 A-frame1963 townhouse1965 tri-level1965 link house1968 split1970 dormer bungalow1977 1938    Los Angeles Times 9 June  ii. 17 		(advt.)	  				Cozy mod. ranchette, fence, 75 x 270. 1956    R. A. Heinlein in  Mag. of Fantasy & Sci. Fict. Oct. 23/2  				I wanted a ranchette near the plant; she favored a flat in Town. 1994    New Yorker 21 Feb. 49/1  				There are acres of Douglas-fir forest..and ranchettes on lawns of chunky red mulch, and squat new apartment complexes. 2006    J. Sher  & W. Marsden Angels of Death iii. 68  				He reported that the Hells Angels leader had ‘settled down in a ranchette near Phoenix..with a pretty young wife’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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