encomienda
Meaning of encomienda
noun
- (history) A system in Spain and, later and more extensively, in Spanish colonies, in which the right to exploit the labour of certain groups of subject people (initially, Muslims, during the Reconquista) was granted to conquerors; servitude within this system.
- (history) A permission to exploit labour within the encomienda system; an enterprise established to exploit such a permission.
Information about encomienda
- It is a name.
- The plural form of encomienda is: encomiendas.
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Hyphenation of encomienda
en-comienda
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- encomienda is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of encomienda
Words that rhyme with encomienda
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