Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The owner or manager of a hacienda.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[American Spanish, from Spanish hacienda; see hacienda.]

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Examples

  • There are no promises about living like a hacendado on an average Social Security check here, but solid information and strategies for making limited funds stretch toward dignified and comfortable lifestyles.

    Head For Mexico: The Renegade Guide 2008

  • There are no promises about living like a hacendado on an average Social Security check here, but solid information and strategies for making limited funds stretch toward dignified and comfortable lifestyles.

    Head For Mexico: The Renegade Guide 2008

  • "Con su pronunciamiento, Vicente Fox se ubica en la postura de un digno hacendado de principios del siglo XX".

    La Profesora Abstraida 2005

  • "Con su pronunciamiento, Vicente Fox se ubica en la postura de un digno hacendado de principios del siglo XX".

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • Not suitable for the wife of a rich Castilian hacendado.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • And my grandfather, he was a hacendado near Guadalajara.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • As servants they kept the owner -- the hacendado -- and his family from ever doing any work.

    Relive the romance of colonial Mexico at a hacienda hotel 2001

  • As servants they kept the owner -- the hacendado -- and his family from ever doing any work.

    Relive the romance of colonial Mexico at a hacienda hotel 2001

  • Most frequently it is a fat Mexican-Spanish hacendado, landowner and big farmer, who is represented with his tight trousers, sticking-out belly, and huge upturned moustaches.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • Francisco I. Madero (1873–1913), a wealthy hacendado, challenged Díaz in the presidential elections of 1910.

    1867, Dec 2001

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