| 1. | the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof. |
| 2. | Also called rambler. any one-story house of the same general form, esp. one built in the suburbs. |

| ranch house n.
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ranch house
type of residential building, characteristically built on one level, having a low roof and a rectangular open plan, with relatively little conventional demarcation of living areas
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