||Ha`ci*en"da (ä`th&esl;*&asl;n"d&adot; or hä`s&ibreve;*&ebreve;n"d&adot;), n. [Sp., fr. OSp. facienda employment, estate, fr. L. facienda, pl. of faciendum what is to be done, fr. facere to do. See Fact.] A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions.

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• a large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.