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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

Last summer, the Spanish Colonial-style hacienda was saved by the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025

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

He had acquired the concessions for other mines, was exporting fruit to foreign countries, had founded a construction firm, and Tres Marias, which had greatly expanded, was now the best hacienda in the area.

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

Unlike the Spanish-style haciendas, the Italianate villas, or faux Tudor mansions that populated this neighborhood of film stars, crowds were there to see this paragon of modernism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2019

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

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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