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hacienda

[hah-see-en-duh, ah-syen-dah] / ˌhɑ siˈɛn də, ɑˈsjɛn dɑ /
NOUN
large estate
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A lawyer educated in Britain and France, she has impressed visiting U.S. officials over elaborate dinners at a restored coffee hacienda in Caracas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

While Moreno-Garcia's book mentions "importing hacienda workers from China. I have not read the book, and do not know whether this would be considered 'negative.'"

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024

They bought the 2,900-square-foot hacienda for $7.25 million in 2017.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

Word that the gated, four-bedroom hacienda at the end of a cul-de-sac was slated to be torn town sparked expressions of outrage on social media, the Times reported.

From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2023

They were peasants who had also been expelled from their hacienda, arriving as humbly as their ancestors of the preceding century to beg the patron to give them work in the coming harvest.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

This is the “old California” image that caught the nation’s fancy: haciendas, grandees in silver- and gold-trimmed clothes, riding costly horses and betting fortunes on a card.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2021

Those often evolved into the even larger haciendas, the size of whole states back in Europe.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

He also gives tours of the town and takes people on guided hikes, bike trips or drives to basalt cliffs, waterfalls, haciendas, hamlets and vistas.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2017

The Spaniards built haciendas, not unlike the ones that dominated the campos of “old” Mexico.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2014

I’ve worked so well that I’ve already bought up the two neighboring haciendas.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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