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fazenda

fazenda noun: a Brazilian plantation, often associated with slavery during the colonial period.

Noun

fazenda (plural fazendas)

  1. A Brazilian plantation, often associated with slavery during the colonial period.
    • In his hospitable fazenda we spent our time until the day when we were empowered to open the letter of instructions given to us by Professor Challenger.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of fazenda

pluralfazendas

Origin of fazenda

Borrowed from Portuguese fazenda (“farm”). Doublet of hacienda and faena.

Questions about fazenda

What does fazenda mean?
Fazenda means a Brazilian plantation, often associated with slavery during the colonial period.
What part of speech is fazenda?
Fazenda is a noun.
What is the plural of fazenda?
The plural of fazenda is fazendas.

Words near fazenda in the dictionary

  1. faze
  2. fazed
  3. Fazekas
  4. Fazenbaker
  5. Fazenbakers
  6. fazenda
  7. fazendas
  8. fazes
  9. Fazilka
  10. fazing
  11. Fazio

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