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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish hacendado.
Noun
hacendado (plural hacendados or hacendadoes)
- 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 + -ado.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aθenˈdado/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /asenˈdado/
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: ha‧cen‧da‧do
Adjective
hacendado (feminine hacendada, masculine plural hacendados, feminine plural hacendadas)
- owner of an hacienda
Noun
hacendado m (plural hacendados, feminine hacendada, feminine plural hacendadas)
- landowner
- Synonym: terrateniente
Participle
hacendado (feminine hacendada, masculine plural hacendados, feminine plural hacendadas)
- past participle of hacendar
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