Hacienda

  

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Hacienda

Definitions: Hacienda

Hacienda

Noun

1. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.

2. The main house on a ranch or large estate.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hacienda" was first used: 1760. (references)

Etymology: Hacienda \Ha`ci*en"da\, noun. [Spanish expression, from OSp. facienda employment, estate, from the Latin expression facienda, plural of faciendum what is to be done, from facere to do. See Fact.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Hacienda

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft.

Property

Manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium; (free); fief, fieff, feoff, feud, zemindary, dependency; arado, merestead, ranch.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Hacienda

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

For the Manchester discotheque, see Fac 51 Hacienda Hacienda is a Spanish word describing a vaste ranch, common in the Pampa. The gauchos worked there. In Spanish Ministerio de Hacienda means "Ministry of Public Finances". This is a Wikipedia:Stub

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hacienda."

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Crosswords: Hacienda

English words defined with "hacienda": Rancho. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hacienda": 91745. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Hacienda" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (hacienda), French (hacienda), Serbo-Croatian (hacienda), Spanish (estate, farm, hacienda, livestock, plantation, ranch, treasury), Swedish (hacienda).

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Modern Usage: Hacienda

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

A Dopey Hacienda (1970)

Hacienda de Huejotitan (1968)

El Crimen de la hacienda (1963)

En la Hacienda de la Flor (1948)

The Mistress of Hacienda del Cerro (1911)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hacienda

DomainTitle

Books

  • Conquest and Agrarian Change: The Emergence of the Hacienda System on the Peruvian Coast (Harvard Historical Studies, 93) (reference)

  • Hacienda (reference)

  • Hacienda My Venezuelan Years (reference)

  • La Hacienda and Other Stories: From Birkenhead to Tokyo: My Travels Around the World (reference)

  • The Hacienda in Mexico (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Live at the Gallery Club & Hacienda (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Hacienda

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hacienda

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

El Salvador

A lawyer is necessary since there are a variety of legal requirements, documents and steps to complete at the Registro de Comercio, the Superintendencia de Empresas Mercantiles, and the Ministry of Hacienda to obtain an authorization to operate in El Salvador. (references)

Travel

Colombia

Among well-known hotels located in Bogotá are: (near downtown and the airport) the Tequendama Intercontinental and Forte Capital; (in the north of town) Grand Mercure, Embassy Suites, Victoria Regia, Bogotá Royal, Radisson Royal, Hacienda Royal, La Fontana, Casa Medina, and Casa Dann Carlton. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Hacienda

"Hacienda" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.79% of the time. "Hacienda" is used about 78 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)71.79%5645,296
Noun (proper)28.21%2274,468
                    Total100.00%78N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Hacienda

Expression using "hacienda": Hacienda Heights. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "hacienda": hacienda-friendly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hacienda

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hacienda

445

hacienda heights ca

442

ministerio de hacienda

83

de departamento hacienda

81

secretaria de hacienda

77

la hacienda

72

hacienda hotel

72

hacienda heights

70

hacienda del mar

55

builder hacienda

52
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hacienda

Language Translations for "hacienda"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

çiflig (demesne, feud, fief). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مزرعة أو المبنى الرئيسي فيها. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ферма (bowery, farm, girder, homestead, location, steading), фабрика (factory, manufactory, mill, plant, shop, works), плантация (estate, plantation), имение (domain, estate, holding, land, place, property, seat). (various references)

   

Czech

  

hacienda. (various references)

   

French

  

hacienda, grande propriété agricole. (various references)

   

German

  

Grundbesitz (estate, ground, holding, land, landed estate, landed property, property, real estate, real property, realty, tenure). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έπαυλισ, αγρόκτημα (farm, farmstead). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

birtok spanyol nyelvterületen. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aciendahay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

fazenda (cloth, commodity, estate, farm, material, merchandise, plantation owner, property, ranch, suiting, wares, wooden cloth). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гасиенда. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

hacienda. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hacienda (estate, farm, livestock, plantation, ranch, treasury). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hacienda. (various references)

   

Thai

  

บ้านไร่ (farmhouse). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

fabrika (factory, mill, plant, works, workshop), büyük çiftlik, çiftlik (bowery, duality, farm, farmstead, ranch). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hacienda

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

facienda. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hacienda

Derivations

Words beginning with "hacienda": haciendado, haciendados, haciendas. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Hacienda" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Azienda, Hachemi, Hacidena, haciendo, Kaziende. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hacienda"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "hacienda" (pronounced ha'sēe"ndu)
4-e" n d uagenda, referenda.
3-n d uanaconda, Golconda, Honda, memoranda, panda, propaganda, rotunda, veranda.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Hacienda

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-h-i-n"

-1 letter: chained, echidna.

-2 letters: acedia, chaine, chined, inched, niched.

-3 letters: aahed, ached, acned, aecia, ahead, caned, canid, chain, chide, china, chine, dacha, dance, hance, naiad, nicad, niche.

-4 letters: aced, ache, acid, acne, aide, cade, cadi, caid, cain, cane, cedi, chad, chia, chid, chin, cine, dace, dean, deni, dice, dine, each, hade, haed, haen, hand, head, hide, hied, hind, iced, idea, inch, nada, nice, nide.

-5 letters: aah, ace, aha, aid, ain, ana, and, ane, ani, cad, can, chi, dah, den, die, din, edh, end, had, hae, hen, hic, hid, hie, hin, ice, ich, nae, nah.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-h-i-n"
 

+1 letter: enchilada, haciendas.

 

+2 letters: chainsawed, chairmaned, enchiladas, haciendado, machinated.

 

+3 letters: anticathode, cachinnated, cantharides, chairmanned, diencephala, haciendados, handicapped, handicapper.

 

+4 letters: anticathodes, archdiocesan, hallucinated, handicappers, handicrafter.

 

+5 letters: archimandrite, authenticated, chateaubriand, dieffenbachia, handicrafters, rhabdomancies, unhandicapped.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hacienda


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 63 69 65 6E 64 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01100011 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#99 &#105 &#101 &#110 &#100 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0063 0069 0065 006E 0064 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4267697571807067

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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