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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

Shortly after seeing his work in Lima, a Mexican mining businessman hired him to create something for his hacienda.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2023

Is there any other hacienda for miles around that has its own school?

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

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

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2020

Dozens of the sisal haciendas outside Mérida have been renovated as resorts.

From New York Times Feb. 25, 2019

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 guides are naturalists; the hotels include gorgeous haciendas; and the groups are small.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 27, 2015

Nor was she the only one; the tenants at Tres Marias and many peasants from haciendas across the region also waited for him.

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




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