Look up: hacienda

1. hacienda
   [n] - a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries 2. [n] - the main house on a ranch or large estate
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2. hacienda
   Large estate typical of most of Spanish colonial and post-colonial Latin America. Typically inherited, haciendas were often built up by the purchase of crown or private lands, or lands...
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3. Hacienda
   Ha`ci·en'da (ä`the*an'dȧ or hä`sĭ*ĕn'dȧ) noun [ Spanish , from OSp. facienda employment, estate, from Latin facienda , plural of faciendum what is to be done, from facere to do. See Fa...
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4. hacienda
   A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; a word used in Spanish-American regions. ... Origin: Sp, fr. OSp. Facienda...
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5. hacienda
   noun the main house on a ranch or large estate
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6. Hacienda
   • (n.) A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions.
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7. hacienda
   in Spanish America, a large landed estate, one of the traditional institutions of rural life. Originating in the colonial period, the hacienda ... [6 related articles]
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8. hacienda
   
   • a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries
   • the main house on a ranch or large estate
   
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9. hacienda
   a large traditional unit of land area in Mexico and the southwestern U.S. The word also refers to a large estate, ranch, or plantation. As a unit, it equals 5 square leguas or 125 million square varas. Using the Texas definition of the vara, this would be about 8960 hectares or 22 140 acres (34.59 s...
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10. Hacienda
    In Spain and Spanish speaking countries and regions, such as Mexico, a hacienda is a ranch or large estate. The name is also given to the main house on a ranch or plantation.
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11. hacienda
    Large estate typical of most of Spanish colonial and post-colonial Latin America. Typically inherited, haciendas were often built up by the purchase of crown or private lands, or lands traditionally worked by the Indian community. They used cheap, seasonal labour to farm produce, fairly inefficiently, for domestic and export markets. Socially, ...
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12. Hacienda
    (resort) `The Hacienda` was a Paradise, Nevada hotel/casino that operated on the Las Vegas Strip from 1956 to 1996. It was one of four Hacienda properties owned by Standard Motels, Inc., with the other three being located in Fresno, Bakersfield, and Indio, California. The other Haciendas also...
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13. Hacienda
    (disambiguation) `Hacienda` is a Spanish word for an estate or the main house upon the estate, see Hacienda. `Ministerio/Departamento de Hacienda`, referring to a government agency in Spain or Latin America, is the treasury department. `Hacienda`, `La Hacienda`<...
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