How to say "ranch" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 牧場ぼくじょうnounCovers 'ranch' as a livestock farm or stock-raising establishment — the place with animals, buildings, and workers. This is the usual word when talking about visiting, working on, or running a ranch.
- 牧野ぼくやnounMatches 'ranch' in the sense of the grazing land itself — open ground where livestock are pastured. It emphasizes the terrain rather than the farm as an operation, so it is not the word for a ranch as a business or place you visit.
For 'ranch' in the sense of a livestock farm as an establishment, use 牧場; for the land itself used as grazing pasture, 牧野 is the word to reach for.
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