This content has been automatically translated from Ukrainian.
Fazenda is a word of Portuguese origin (fazenda), which literally means a large farm or plantation in Brazil or Portugal.
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In Brazil, it is a large estate where coffee, sugarcane, soybeans, cattle, etc. are grown.
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During colonial times, slave labor was exploited there.
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The owner of a fazenda was called a fazendeiro.
A fazenda included:
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a main house (sometimes luxurious);
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housing for workers and slaves;
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a church or chapel;
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outbuildings (stables, warehouses, mills);
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fields, plantations, pastures.
In Brazil, the term is still used to refer to large agricultural lands. In Ukrainian colloquial speech, "fazenda" is sometimes jokingly used to refer to a summer house or a rural house with a plot.
