hacienda

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large estate, plantation, or ranch in a Spanish-speaking country, especially in the Americas

   The historic hacienda once managed cattle and sugarcane across thousands of acres.

2. 2
   noun

   the main house on such an estate

   Guests ate supper in the hacienda overlooking the valley.

Borrowed from Spanish hacienda, 'property, estate, or business,' originally the feminine participle of hacer, 'to make or do,' from Latin facere. The sense developed from something done or possessed to property and then to a large landed estate and its principal house.

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