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
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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.
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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.
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"Con su pronunciamiento, Vicente Fox se ubica en la postura de un digno hacendado de principios del siglo XX".
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"Con su pronunciamiento, Vicente Fox se ubica en la postura de un digno hacendado de principios del siglo XX".
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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Not suitable for the wife of a rich Castilian hacendado.
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And my grandfather, he was a hacendado near Guadalajara.
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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
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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
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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
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Francisco I. Madero (18731913), a wealthy hacendado, challenged Díaz in the presidential elections of 1910.
1867, Dec 2001
 
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