hacienda

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noun

A large homestead in a ranch or estate, usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.

Less commonScrabble 14

Meanings

nounhacienda (plural haciendas)

plural haciendas

  1. A large homestead in a ranch or estate, usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.

    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.

    1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 14, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
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    The writer Juan Rulfo, whose 1955 novel, “Pedro Páramo,” still stands as the central monument of modern Mexican literature, grew up in Jalisco and vividly depicted its arid, sun-blasted landscapes in his writing, while the architect Luis Barragán, who moved from Guadalajara to Mexico City in the 1930s, carried with him an appreciation for his home state’s cloisters, haciendas and humble country buildings, which he translated in his own work as austere, inscrutable volumes of stucco.

    2023 November 17, Michael Snyder, “A Guide to Guadalajara, Mexico’s City of Makers”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2023

Origin

  1. Spanishhacienda
  2. Englishhacienda

Borrowed from Spanish hacienda. Doublet of faena and fazenda.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 莊園 /庄园
  • 莊園 /庄园 (zhuāngyuán)homestead
Dutch haciënda
  • haciëndahomestead
Finnish maatila
  • maatilahomestead
French hacienda
  • haciendahomestead
German Hazienda, Hacienda
  • Haziendahomestead
  • Haciendahomestead
Malay hasienda
  • hasiendahomestead
Polish hacjenda
  • hacjendahomestead
Portuguese fazenda
  • fazendahomestead
Russian гасие́нда, фазе́нда
  • гасие́нда (gasijénda)homestead
  • фазе́нда (fazɛ́nda)homestead
  • асье́нда (asʹjénda)homestead
Spanish hacienda
  • haciendahomestead
Turkish (i) büyük çiftlik
  • (i) büyük çiftlikhomestead

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

hacienda. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hacienda

MLA

“hacienda.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hacienda. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hacienda,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hacienda.

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