hacienda

See also Hacienda

English

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Etymology

Spanish hacienda

Pronunciation

Noun

hacienda (plural haciendas)

  1. a large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.
    • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 14, The Dust of Conflict[1]:
      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.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin facienda.

Pronunciation

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

  1. treasury
  2. hacienda
  3. livestock

See also

Verb

hacienda (infinitive hacendar)

  1. Informal second-person singular () affirmative imperative form of hacendar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of hacendar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of hacendar.
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