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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

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

With five bedrooms, a Jacuzzi and a grand entryway capped by a cupola, the hacienda stood out from the crumbling adobe buildings nearby.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2023

The hacienda served as a sanitorium—a medical facility for those with long-term illness—and Dr. Pérez was in charge.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

If they did not own mines themselves, leading colonists raised these products, as well as sugar and tobacco, on large landed estates called haciendas.

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

The landscape was what drew people to Utuado, where coffee haciendas were built by “black gold” in the 19th century, funding the island’s first electric light system run by a hydraulic power plant.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 24, 2017

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

During their stay, they visited Mayan ruins and old haciendas and got a taste of local food and culture.

From Forbes Sep. 10, 2014

Tres Marias was one of the last haciendas in the South to be expropriated under the agrarian reform.

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




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