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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

fazenda

Pronunciation / Transliteration: faˈzẽda

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Homestead/ˈhoʊm.stɛd/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A família se mudou para uma fazenda no campo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A house, especially a farmhouse, and outbuildings, typically on a plot of land.

    "The family decided to move to a homestead in the countryside to enjoy a simpler lifestyle."
  2. 2

    A piece of land, especially one granted to a settler, that includes a dwelling and is used for farming.

    "Under the Homestead Act, many pioneers received land to cultivate and build their homesteads."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'homestead' originates from the Old English 'hamstede', where 'ham' means home and 'stede' means place or site. Historically, it referred to a dwelling with its land, particularly in the context of early American settlement and land grants.

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