单词 | hacienda |
释义 | haciendan. In Spain, and existing or former Spanish colonies: An estate or ‘plantation’ with a dwelling-house upon it; a farming, stock-raising, mining, or manufacturing establishment in the country; sometimes, a country-house. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > a landed property or estate homeOE landsc1000 estrec1275 manorc1300 stead1338 room?a1513 soil1575 demesne1584 proprietary1608 land-gooda1626 country estate1692 property1719 quinta1754 estate1772 hacienda1772 concern1787 finca1909 1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 135 That they call La Hazienda de la Marquesa, or the Marchioness's Estate.] 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) II. 116 These extensive tracts of land are divided into Haciendas, or estates belonging to noble families of Lima. 1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi iii. 256 The Hacienda of Pattos was a square enclosure of about three hundred feet. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. I. xv. 477 A square house (the hacienda or farm) contained nearly eighty negroes. 1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) III. 676 Working it on their own account, or, as it is termed, hacienda account. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 144 Hacienda..in mining is usually applied to the offices, principal buildings, and works for reducing the ores. 1897 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 685/2 The pleasant picture of hacienda life in the land of the Aztecs. 1944 Harper's Mag. Aug. 201/2 The Rio Blanco textile works set up in Mexico..were designed to produce cloth for sale at hacienda stores. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1772 |
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