hacienda
See also: Hacienda and haciënda
English
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌhæsiˈɛndə/
Audio (Reading, Berkshire) (file) 
 - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌ(h)ɑsiˈɛndə/
 - Rhymes: -ɛndə
 - Hyphenation: ha‧ci‧en‧da
 
Noun
    
hacienda (plural haciendas)
- A large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.
-  1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 14, in The Dust of Conflict:
- The hot day was over, and the light failing rapidly, when Appleby, who had just finished comida, sat by a window of the hacienda San Cristoval with an English newspaper upon his knee.
 
 
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Translations
    
homestead
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French
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- (mute h) IPA(key): /a.sjɛn.da/
 
Further reading
    
- “hacienda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
 
Spanish
    
    Etymology
    
From Old Spanish fazienda, from Latin facienda (literally “things to be done”), from faciō (“to do”). Cognate with Portuguese fazenda. Doublet of faena.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈθjenda/ [aˈθjẽn̪.d̪a]
 - IPA(key): (Latin America) /aˈsjenda/ [aˈsjẽn̪.d̪a]
 - Rhymes: -enda
 - Syllabification: ha‧cien‧da
 
Related terms
    
Verb
    
hacienda
- inflection of hacendar:
- third-person singular present indicative
 - second-person singular imperative
 
 
Further reading
    
- “hacienda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
 
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