(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morrissey: "We've had a great deal of personal support from the people at the Hacienda when they could easily have ignored us for signing with Rough Trade in London rather than Factory in Manchester and that's good because, as Johnny says, that means attitudes are at last changing."
(2) He attempted new versions of Factory, endlessly curious for the next new thing, the next pop-culture revolution, but he never managed to follow his great innovations, Factory, or the Hacienda, or So It Goes.
(3) Outside Bissau city are exclusive Hispanic-style haciendas with wide verandahs, turquoise swimming pools and gates patrolled by armed guards.
(4) • This article was amended on 28 May 2012 to clarify a comment that only 150 of the units at Hacienda Requelme are occupied.
(5) Heavily armed guards protect the thousands of cattle that roam its lush pastures and the hacienda-style complex built on a hill at the farm's centre, complete with swimming pool.
(6) You’ve got the wrong city if you think hate will tear us apart.” The tweet from former Hacienda DJ Dave Haslam was only 13 words long, but it said an awful lot.
(7) Wilson certainly had a way of revving it up when the man behind Factory Records and the Hacienda nightclub – music mogul, broadcaster, impresario and professional Salfordian – earned his crust presenting Granada Reports, staring into the cameras with a level of self-adoration not often witnessed on regional news programmes and clearly loving the fact his opinions went straight into people’s living rooms.
(8) In the living room, stacked floor-to-ceiling, are boardgames, hundreds of them: Africana, Parfum, Pirate’s Cove, Whitechapel, Tzolk’in, Goa, Hacienda.
(9) Approaching 50, his reputation is such that his mother presented him with a silver pot of Marmite when he moved to the US, which he keeps in a “mini-pub” full of British memorabilia in his hacienda-style house in Los Angeles.
(10) Meeting friends, getting together with people ... it’s about the gathering as much as anything else.” Haslam agrees: “Those of us from the Hacienda generation and beyond, we do have a very utopian sense of what music can do,” he says.
(11) Hacienda Eden, Playa Troncones, Guerrero The name is not an idle boast: commanding a spot in the middle of gorgeous Manzanillo Bay, 22 miles north of Zihuatanejo, Hacienda Eden’s 10 rooms and four bungalows fill primarily with repeat guests.
(12) Among her last gestures before she and Devine split was an astonishing performance at the Hacienda in Manchester , on 5 November 1982.
(13) Thirty-three Alouatta palliata were captured during the wet season at Hacienda La Pacifica near Canas, Costa Rica.
(14) In a stunt that pre-dated Lady Gaga by three decades, she once performed at the Hacienda, in Manchester, in a dress made from scraps of commercial meat, while two other women handed out raw meat wrapped in porn to the crowd.
(15) We have isolated four strains of EEEV from sentinel hamsters exposed at Caño Mocho and Madre Vieja sites in 1973 and 1974, and three strains of EEEV in Hacienda (Hda.)
(16) • Pitches £4pp inc breakfast, glamping tents from £16 for two, reservations preferred laserrana.com.co 4 Hacienda Venecia, Manizales, Caldas This site, also in coffee country in central western Colombia, is close to the verdant Los Nevados national park and ticks lots of boxes.
(17) My spirits lifted the moment I arrived at the hacienda-style property set amid sprawling ejidos (community-owned farms), mainly because it bombards you with colour, from hand-painted tiles on the walls to bright ceramics in the central cactus garden.
(18) The first dancers at the Hacienda weren’t Bez types, but black kids breakdancing and doing jazz dancing.” What made this all possible is the fact that Manchester has always been an immigrant city – home to huge communities from Ireland, the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent.
(19) Burnham, a passionate Stone Roses fan who boasts about seeing the Fall at Manchester’s legendary Hacienda and whose last gig was the Maccabees at Manchester’s Albert Hall, has also pledged to make Greater Manchester “the unrivalled music capital of Europe, if not the world”.
(20) From the air, you can see the Spanish hacienda villas, and the obligatory black four-wheel-drives are everywhere, with the obligatory scantily-clad girl, James Bond style.
Homestead
Definition:
(n.) The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
(n.) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
(n.) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was the tragedy that established Bridge Farm as the most woebegone of Archers homesteads.
(2) As well as sparking a novel, Merrill's caress further initiated Forster into the comradely haven of his and Carpenter's rural domesticity: a Derbyshire homestead, safe from public scrutiny.
(3) In the afternoons, tiny boys somehow ride adult bicycles, weaving along the tentacle paths that connect the homesteads.
(4) As our bus drives past, radiation levels inside surge to 61 microsieverts an hour (compared to the typical Japanese average of 0.34 microsieverts).Elsewhere inside the exclusion zone, at least 1,000 cattle are roaming wild after escaping from their farm homesteads, according to local authorities.
(5) She argued that the proposed laws had been "tabled within the context of a revived securocrat state", noting the secrecy around the Marikana mine massacre and use of public funds on Zuma's homestead.
(6) The EFF claims that the ANC has sold its revolutionary soul to "white monopoly capital" and that serial corruption scandals, notably the spending of £13.7m on president Jacob Zuma's homestead in Nkandla , show its contempt for the poor.
(7) The sprawling homestead is a jarring sight in one of the world's most unequal societies.
(8) He had been raised in a remote campesino homestead on the far side of the valley, and the trail we were on – a round trip of 40 miles, including a total ascent of 10,000ft – had been his weekly walk to primary school.
(9) Karen Nicoletto, 49, who was walking her dogs past Harris's former homestead, said the plaque outside his childhood home should stay.
(10) Zuma cast his vote in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal province, where a scandal over the spending of taxpayer millions on security upgrades at his homestead did not prevent crowds greeting him enthusiastically and ululating.
(11) "There were issues that had called for security, particularly in my homestead," he elaborated.
(12) In a measure of the importance of the event for the government, the opening ceremony at the tiny homestead museum was simultaneously translated into five languages and streamed to Polish embassies in 17 countries.
(13) A search for Glossina fuscipes fuscipes puparia near homesteads in the sleeping sickness focus of Busoga revealed puparia and puparial shells under Coffea canephora (coffee), Musa sp.
(14) Thirty-nine of the 77 Rett females were traced to 9 small and separate rural areas, and 17 pairs even came from the same farm or homestead.
(15) Yet 2bn rand will be spent on a multi-purpose centre a few kilometres away from President Zuma's homestead."
(16) A motorcyclist wearing a Scream mask pierced the deceptive calm outside the murdered Eugene Terre'Blanche 's homestead near Venterdsorp this afternoon.
(17) The row comes with the president, a Zulu traditionalist with four wives and 21 children, still trying to shrug off a scandal over the spending of taxpayer millions on upgrades at his family homestead.
(18) Speaking at the Humans to Mars conference in Washington last month, Nasa chief Charles Bolden laid out a vision for bringing the US space programme out of its first stage, exploration, and into pioneering, even homesteading.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Uptown, Jerry Seinfeld spent the year performing his monthly Homestead show, and reminding everyone why he became the most famous comedian in the world – absolutely nobody does observational comedy better .
(20) The xylem sap of nitrogen-fixing Pisum Sativum cv Homesteader has been examined by capillary gas chromatography and by gas chromatography mass spectrometry in both electron-impact and chemical ionization modes following the formation of N-heptafluorobutyryl isobutyl ester derivatives.