plaasn.

Brit.

/plɑːs/, U.S.

/plɑs/, South African English

/plɑːs/

Inflections: Plural plaases, plase Brit.

/ˈplɑːsə/, U.S.

/ˈplɑsə/, South African English

/plɑːsə/;

Forms: 1800s plaats, 1800s plaatzen (plural), 1900s– plaas.

Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: Dutch plaas, plaats.

Etymology: < South African Dutch plaas (Afrikaans plaas ), Dutch plaats farm, place, square: see place n.¹

South African.

A farm, a homestead. In later use also (mildly depreciative): (with the) a farming area, regarded as unsophisticated or unworldly. Cf. place n.¹ 7a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmstead > [noun]

towneOE

steading1472

farm-steading1533

onstead1551

farmtown1609

homestead1610

farmstead1753

homesteading1812

werf1818

plaas1834

head station1835

1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches 296 He possessed eleven plaatzen, or farm properties.

1868 W. R. Thomson Poems, Ess. & Sketches 157 They saddled their horses and rode off, leaving only his wife and a few old men and women on the ‘plaats’.

1896 R. Wallace Farming Industry Cape Colony 162 Every man had a plaats, which grew as much grain as he wanted, as many grapes as he cared to make into wine of a sort.

1927 Outspan (Bloemfontein) 4 Mar. 9 He had driven twelve donkeys and a wagon laden with yellow peaches from the ‘plaas’ and intended to hawk the fruit in the streets.

1959 J. Meiring Candle in Wind 117 An older girl..looked Lena up and down. ‘Are you from the plaas?’ she asked impudently.

1982 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 19 Dec. 4 Many of today's achievers..started out as barefoot boys on remote plaases in the platteland. Now, often still barefoot boys on the plaas, they unashamedly enjoy the status symbols.

1988 Star (Johannesburg) 1 June (Tonight) 14 Stateside he hit the media roundabout for 10 hours a day... ‘I still felt like this oke from the plaas and there they were talking bigtime.’

1990 J. Naidoo Coolie Location 99 I didn't want to run the risk of having beauty accompanied by naiveté. I didn't want a plaas girl for a life-long companion.

1998 Toronto Star (Nexis) 26 Sept. Nyana's father..worked as a farm labourer until he got too old to carry the milk buckets and the white farmer locked him out of his hut and ordered him off the plaas.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	plaas
释义	plaasn. Brit. /plɑːs/, U.S. /plɑs/, South African English /plɑːs/ Inflections: Plural plaases, plase Brit. /ˈplɑːsə/, U.S. /ˈplɑsə/, South African English /plɑːsə/; Forms: 1800s plaats, 1800s plaatzen (plural), 1900s– plaas. Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: Dutch plaas, plaats. Etymology: < South African Dutch plaas (Afrikaans plaas ), Dutch plaats farm, place, square: see place n.¹ South African. A farm, a homestead. In later use also (mildly depreciative): (with the) a farming area, regarded as unsophisticated or unworldly. Cf. place n.¹ 7a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmstead > [noun] towneOE steading1472 farm-steading1533 onstead1551 farmtown1609 homestead1610 farmstead1753 homesteading1812 werf1818 plaas1834 head station1835 1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches 296 He possessed eleven plaatzen, or farm properties. 1868 W. R. Thomson Poems, Ess. & Sketches 157 They saddled their horses and rode off, leaving only his wife and a few old men and women on the ‘plaats’. 1896 R. Wallace Farming Industry Cape Colony 162 Every man had a plaats, which grew as much grain as he wanted, as many grapes as he cared to make into wine of a sort. 1927 Outspan (Bloemfontein) 4 Mar. 9 He had driven twelve donkeys and a wagon laden with yellow peaches from the ‘plaas’ and intended to hawk the fruit in the streets. 1959 J. Meiring Candle in Wind 117 An older girl..looked Lena up and down. ‘Are you from the plaas?’ she asked impudently. 1982 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 19 Dec. 4 Many of today's achievers..started out as barefoot boys on remote plaases in the platteland. Now, often still barefoot boys on the plaas, they unashamedly enjoy the status symbols. 1988 Star (Johannesburg) 1 June (Tonight) 14 Stateside he hit the media roundabout for 10 hours a day... ‘I still felt like this oke from the plaas and there they were talking bigtime.’ 1990 J. Naidoo Coolie Location 99 I didn't want to run the risk of having beauty accompanied by naiveté. I didn't want a plaas girl for a life-long companion. 1998 Toronto Star (Nexis) 26 Sept. Nyana's father..worked as a farm labourer until he got too old to carry the milk buckets and the white farmer locked him out of his hut and ordered him off the plaas. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1834
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