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plaas

plaas noun: a farm.

Noun

plaas (plural plaases)

  1. (South Africa) A farm.
    • "The man who burned down the plaas, deserves himself to be burned," cried Solomon with irrelevant heat.1929, Norman Giles, Keerboskloof, page 110

Forms of plaas

pluralplaases

Origin of plaas

From Afrikaans plaas (“farm”). Doublet of place, piazza, and plaza.

Questions about plaas

What does plaas mean?
Plaas means a farm.
What part of speech is plaas?
Plaas is a noun.
What is the plural of plaas?
The plural of plaas is plaases.

Words near plaas in the dictionary

  1. pl0x
  2. PLA
  3. pla ra
  4. PLA2
  5. PLAAF
  6. plaas
  7. plaases
  8. plabic
  9. plac'd
  10. plac't
  11. placabilities

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