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Ecuadorean estate
Answer for the clue "Ecuadorean estate ", 8 letters:
hacienda
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Word definitions for hacienda in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hacienda \Ha`ci*en"da\ ([aum]`th[-e]*[asl]n"d[.a] or h[aum]`s[i^]*[e^]n"d[.a]), n. [Sp., fr. OSp. facienda employment, estate, fr. L. facienda, pl. of faciendum what is to be done, fr. facere to do. See Fact .] A large estate where work of any kind is done, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Apparently he has a great estate beyond the Sierra Nevada - big hacienda or some such thing. ▪ He wore a suit, and had a sombrero, and looked like the owner of a hacienda . ▪ I know the hacienda and can be independent. ▪ If apprehended ...
Usage examples of hacienda.
Long Quiet soon found himself in the cool, candle-lit interior of the adobe hacienda.
There is a large adobe house on the property, where my grandparents lived before my father built this hacienda.
Much later, Macklin sat with Ned Buntline on the front porch of the Hacienda, leaning back in a rocking chair as he studied the sparse traffic on Franklin Street.
As they passed a hacienda, two of the riders waved to Diego and turned off.
It is almost the only one remaining of the oldfashioned Spanish haciendas, where the old administration prevails.
These little lies, of which I am certain God will forgive, were necessary because Don Julio insisted that both Mateo and I regularly attend church so that he could not be accused of running a Godless hacienda.
In the Santa Barbara hacienda, Brandy and me found Benzedrine and Dexedrine and old Quaaludes and Soma and some Dialose capsules that turned out to be a fecal softener.
Eusebio saw that Palo and Rio were among the few allowed inside with the captain and Hacienda.
Strip, drawing angry honks from the cars behind her, and stomped the cab to a halt at a red curb by the Hacienda Camperland south of Tropicana Avenue.
Hacienda de Alegria, the sprawling, coast-hugging ranch owned by Joe and Meredith Colton.
Santoval died in 1917 and his death was the signal for an Auca attack on the hacienda.
Don Carlos has working for him on his hacienda an Auca woman who escaped some years ago from a tribal killing.
The Miami Biltmore Hotel loomed above this contrived, palm-bordered landscape, a sprawling hacienda gone out of control, with a central tower adjoining an assortment of wings to face in a gently curving C the putting greens that were its lawn.
Swift had already arrived in Chile and was now setting up the underground lab at the Castilla hacienda.
He set out for the Castilla hacienda, admiring the scenery as he drove, but maintaining a good speed.