estancia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large ranch or rural estate in Spanish-speaking South America, especially Argentina or Uruguay

   The estancia raised cattle on thousands of hectares of open grassland.

Borrowed from Spanish estancia 'stay, dwelling, station, estate,' from estar 'to stand or remain,' ultimately Latin stare 'to stand.' In the River Plate region the word became the usual name for a large rural property devoted especially to cattle or sheep.

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