hacendado

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noun

The owner of a hacienda.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounhacendado (plural hacendados or hacendadoes)

plural hacendados · plural hacendadoes

  1. The owner of a hacienda.

    But she preferred to imagine herself a princess, courted by all the sons of hacendados […].

    2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 151

Origin

  1. Spanishhacienda
  2. Spanishhacendar
  3. Spanishhacendado
  4. Englishhacendado

Borrowed from Spanish hacendado.

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APA

hacendado. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hacendado

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Chicago

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