hacendado

English

Etymology

From Spanish hacendado.

Noun

hacendado (plural hacendados or hacendadoes)

  1. The owner of a hacienda.
    • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 151:
      But she preferred to imagine herself a princess, courted by all the sons of hacendados […].

Spanish

Etymology

From hacendar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /aθenˈdado/ [a.θẽn̪ˈd̪a.ð̞o]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /asenˈdado/ [a.sẽn̪ˈd̪a.ð̞o]
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: ha‧cen‧da‧do

Adjective

hacendado (feminine hacendada, masculine plural hacendados, feminine plural hacendadas)

  1. owner of an hacienda

Noun

hacendado m (plural hacendados, feminine hacendada, feminine plural hacendadas)

  1. landowner

Participle

hacendado (feminine hacendada, masculine plural hacendados, feminine plural hacendadas)

  1. past participle of hacendar

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