[Sp. estancia, lit. station = OF. estance, med.L. stantia, f. stāre to stand.] A cattle-farm in Spanish America.
1704. Collect. Voy. (Churchill), III. 19/2. These they call Estancia’s.
1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., iv. (1876), 64, note. Every estancia, or farming estate, has one [a corral] attached to it.
