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单词 hacienda
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Definition of hacienda in English:

hacienda

noun aˈθjendaˌhasɪˈɛndəaˈsjendaˌhɑsiˈɛndə
  • (in Spanish-speaking countries or regions) a large estate or plantation with a dwelling house.

    (讲西班牙语的国家或地区的)大庄园,种植园

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The discovery of oil in the 1970s might have brought new prosperity, but in fact the mass of the population remained poor and illiterate, with the great haciendas surviving intact.
    • In addition, an ill-prepared but nevertheless aggressive land reform resulted in the breakup of the hacienda estates and brought chaos to the countryside.
    • Both groups were brought in to work as rural laborers in the large hacienda / estate holdings.
    • Spanish settlers established haciendas in the lower part of the valley.
    • Silver-mining was only part of a sophisticated Mexican economy with large-scale farming and ranching on great estates called haciendas and a considerable amount of manufacturing in small workshops.
    • All over, you'll find the dramatically dilapidated shells of haciendas - the former homes of the conquistadors, where plantation, processing plant and stately home were one and the same.
    • Most of these worked as domestics and laborers in urban areas, although some toiled on rural farms and haciendas.
    • We drove on one hill and saw sprawling haciendas, with very high walls enclosing them and enormous gateways.
    • Indigenous people in Chimborazo who were unable to meet their tribute or whose land was expropriated eventually became tied to the region's haciendas in a system of debt servitude that lasted until an agrarian reform in 1964.
    • Villas here tend to be clustered into gated estates, but if you want something more authentically Mexican, try a hacienda.
    Synonyms
    plantation, farm, holding

Origin

Spanish, from Latin facienda 'things to be done', from facere 'make, do'.

Rhymes

addenda, agenda, amender, ascender, attender, blender, Brenda, contender, corrigenda, descender, engender, extender, fazenda, fender, gender, Glenda, Gwenda, Länder, lender, mender, offender, pudenda, recommender, referenda, render, sender, slender, spender, splendour (US splendor), surrender, suspender, tender, Venda, weekender, Wenda

Definition of hacienda in US English:

hacienda

nounˌhɑsiˈɛndəˌhäsēˈendə
  • (in Spanish-speaking regions) a large estate or plantation with a dwelling house.

    (讲西班牙语的国家或地区的)大庄园,种植园

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The discovery of oil in the 1970s might have brought new prosperity, but in fact the mass of the population remained poor and illiterate, with the great haciendas surviving intact.
    • Indigenous people in Chimborazo who were unable to meet their tribute or whose land was expropriated eventually became tied to the region's haciendas in a system of debt servitude that lasted until an agrarian reform in 1964.
    • Most of these worked as domestics and laborers in urban areas, although some toiled on rural farms and haciendas.
    • Both groups were brought in to work as rural laborers in the large hacienda / estate holdings.
    • All over, you'll find the dramatically dilapidated shells of haciendas - the former homes of the conquistadors, where plantation, processing plant and stately home were one and the same.
    • Villas here tend to be clustered into gated estates, but if you want something more authentically Mexican, try a hacienda.
    • In addition, an ill-prepared but nevertheless aggressive land reform resulted in the breakup of the hacienda estates and brought chaos to the countryside.
    • We drove on one hill and saw sprawling haciendas, with very high walls enclosing them and enormous gateways.
    • Spanish settlers established haciendas in the lower part of the valley.
    • Silver-mining was only part of a sophisticated Mexican economy with large-scale farming and ranching on great estates called haciendas and a considerable amount of manufacturing in small workshops.
    Synonyms
    plantation, farm, holding

Origin

Spanish, from Latin facienda ‘things to be done’, from facere ‘make, do’.

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