noun
- a large estate or plantation in Brazil, typically used for cattle ranching or agriculture
Usage: Brazilian Portuguese origin
Examples
- The coffee fazenda stretched for miles across the Brazilian countryside.
- He inherited his grandfather’s cattle fazenda in Minas Gerais.
- The fazenda produced soybeans and corn for export.
- Workers lived in small houses scattered throughout the fazenda.
- The old fazenda had been in the family for generations.
- Tourism has brought new life to many abandoned fazendas.