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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

The rebels’ final push to victory would take them right past the front door of Cardenas’ three-quarter-acre hacienda.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 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

Farmer climbed back in the car, and we continued on to the hacienda, once owned by a wealthy family that had fled the country when Castro came to power.

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

These brief decades were glamorized by a huge bestseller, an 1884 novel called “Ramona,” by Helen Hunt Jackson, who had been a guest at one of the great haciendas.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2021

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

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2020

The mines supported sprawling haciendas, estates housing bosses and business operations.

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

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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