fazenda

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large Brazilian farm or plantation, especially one producing coffee

   The expedition rested at a fazenda outside Manaus before continuing upriver.

2. 2
   noun

   the principal house on such a Brazilian estate

   Guests gathered on the veranda of the fazenda after sunset.

Borrowed from Portuguese fazenda ("farm, estate; property"), from Latin facienda ("things to be done"), the neuter plural of the gerundive of facere ("to do, make"). It is a historical doublet of hacienda.

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