hacendado
noun
the owner of a hacienda.
hacendados
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pluralof hacendado.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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His potent backers were Chile's hacendados, the Agrarians. whose previous man had been President Alessandri.
From Time Magazine Archive
The half liking that you deal out to Anton, Javier, and other fat-jowled hacendados, your admirers, would never do for me.
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Herman Whitaker
There was a merchant or so, a coffee exporter or so, a ranchero or so, and hacendados from the interior.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
It was amusing to find this village, hardly larger than many a one about the home of Mexican hacendados, the capital of a State.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck
There were rancheros in their picturesque attire, smart arrieros, miners from the hills, townsmen, hacendados of the valley, vaqueros from the grazing-farms, and ciboleros, whose home is for the most part on the wide prairies.
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans
