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What is the difference between ranch and hacienda?

ranch | hacienda |

As nouns the difference between ranch and hacienda

is that ranch is a large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock while hacienda is a large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.

As a verb ranch

is to operate a ranch; engage in ranching.

ranch

English

Noun

(ranches)
  • A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
    • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
  • A small farm that cultivates vegetables and/or livestock.
  • A house or property on a ranch land.
  • Ranch dressing.

    • Derived terms

    * rancher * ranchhand * ranchslider, ranch slider

    Verb

    (es)
  • To operate a ranch; engage in ranching.
    • Formally the widow still ranches''', in fact she leaves all ' ranching to the foreman
  • To work on a ranch
  • :: ''Bill had ranched only five years when his dad made him foreman

    • hacienda

    English

    (wikipedia hacienda)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=14 citation , passage=The hot day was over, and the light failing rapidly, when Appleby, who had just finished comida, sat by a window of the hacienda San Cristoval with an English newspaper upon his knee.}}