[e-stahn-see-uh; Sp. es-tahn-syah] 
[-see-uh
z; Sp. -syahs] . | (in Spanish America) a landed estate or a cattle ranch. |
| es·tan·cia (ě-stän'syä) n. A large estate or cattle ranch in Spanish America. [Spanish, room, enclosure, country estate, from Vulgar Latin *stantia, something standing, from Latin stāns, stant-, present participle of stāre, to stand; see stā- in Indo-European roots.] |
estancia
in the Rio de la Plata region of Argentina and Uruguay, an extensive rural estate largely devoted to cattle ranching and to some extent to the raising of feed grain
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