rancheria
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See also: ranchería
English
Etymology
Noun
rancheria (plural rancherias)
- A small settlement in the Americas, especially of Native Americans.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
- 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.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 98:
- 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.