rancheria

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Definition of rancheria

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noun

A small settlement in the Americas, especially of Native Americans.

“The springs are so few in number that their names are household words in every Indian rancheria and every settler's home; and there are no brooks, no creeks, and no rivers but the trunk of the Colorado and the trunk of the Gila.”
“As for escaping, there were eight hundred miles of dry wilderness between the ranchería and civilization.”

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noun

A small settlement in the Americas, especially of Native Americans.

“The springs are so few in number that their names are household words in every Indian rancheria and every settler's home; and there are no brooks, no creeks, and no rivers but the trunk of the Colorado and the trunk of the Gila.”
“As for escaping, there were eight hundred miles of dry wilderness between the ranchería and civilization.”
(Philippines, historical)A political division denoting a small poor rural settlement.

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Borrowed from Spanish ranchería. Doublet of rancherie.

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