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Hacienda   Listen
noun
Hacienda  n.  
1.
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.
2.
The main residence of a hacienda (1).






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"Hacienda" Quotes from Famous Books



... did not live in a Jesuit parish but in the neighboring hacienda of St. John the Baptist at Kalamba, where there was a great dam and an extensive irrigation system which caused the land to rival in fertility the rich soil of Binan. Everybody in his neighborhood knew that the estate had been purchased with money left in Mexico by ...
— Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot • Austin Craig

... he saw that the men had changed their course and were plainly headed toward and rapidly gaining on him. His position was decidedly unpleasant. The outlaws he was sure, had recognized him as one of the comrades who were visiting at the hacienda, and of whom they had heard enough, through Took, to regard as dangerous enemies and to be gotten out of the way. Whether they knew that the comrades had discovered the secret of the lost river or not, they were evidently anxious to be ...
— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond



Words linked to "Hacienda" :   demesne, estate, house



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