ranchero
Southwestern livestock owner
A ranchero is a rancher or ranch owner, especially in Mexico or the American Southwest.
The word carries associations with traditional rural life and horsemanship.
In culinary contexts, ranchero describes food prepared ranch-style, typically with a tomato-chile sauce: huevos rancheros, salsa ranchera.
Ranchero music is a traditional Mexican genre featuring guitars and passionate vocals about love, loss, and country life.
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
- herdGrazing animals together
- rangelandLand for grazing animals
- grazingFeeding on pasture
- pastureGrazing ground for livestock
livestock · breeding · feedlot · beef · fencing · corral · stockyard · branding
Looped rope for catching
- chapsProtective riding legwear
- saddleMounted rider's seat
- broncoUnbroken saddle horse
- rodeoCowboy skills competition
wrangler · spurs · corral · mustang · cattleman · buckaroo · bandana · roundup
Spanish northern adjective
cattle
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
pasture · livestock · breeding · feedlot · beef · fencing · corral · stockyard · branding · drive
lasso
Looped rope for catching
rodeo · wrangler · spurs · corral · mustang · cattleman · buckaroo · bandana · roundup · cowpoke
norteño
Spanish northern adjective
corrido
Mexican narrative folk song
tortilla
Thin unleavened Mexican bread
queso · enchilada · desayuno · tomatillo · jalapeño · cilantro · comida · skillet
- Mexican Farmingmaize, campesino, hacienda, nopal, nopales
- Rancho Californiahacienda, vaquero, adobe, corral, lasso
- adobe homesadobe, cob, sun-dried bricks, dried mud, whitewash
- personasmujer, personas, hombres, mujeres, nino
- Southwestmesa, Monument Valley, Arizona, New Mexico, Grand Canyon
- equestriansrider, jockeys, horseman, horsewoman, show jumpers
rancherocity dweller
Urban area inhabitant
urbanite · city slicker · townsman · cosmopolitan · metropolitan
rancherovaquero
Hispanic cattle driver
farmhand · ranch hand · hired hand · day laborer · sharecropper
rancherofarmer
One who cultivates land
crop farmer · campesino · cultivator · orchardist · vintner
- huevos rancherosMexican egg breakfast
- cattle rancherOne who raises bovines
- dude ranchesVacation farms offering horseback activities
- Jolly RancherFruit-flavored hard candy brand
- cattle ranchesLivestock farming properties
- horse ranchesEquine breeding facilities
rancher, ranches, ranched, ranchers, ranchera, rancheros, rancheras