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noun plan·ta·tion \ plan-ˈtā-shən \

Definition of plantation

1 :a usually large group of plants and especially trees under cultivation

2 :a settlement in a new country or region

Plymouth Plantation

3 a :a place that is planted or under cultivation

b :an agricultural estate usually worked by resident labor

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the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter

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Teachers in the early grades focus on commerce and trade in the colonies, and learn about plantation life, Middleton said.

— deborah sullivan brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, "History teachers travel back in time to Colonial Williamsburg," 30 Aug. 2017
So the idea that this would be pornography goes back to people imagining whips and plantations.

— eliza thompson, Cosmopolitan, "Game of Thrones Producers Explain Their Questionable Decision to Make a Show About Slavery," 21 July 2017
The plantations extended inland from the Mississippi River in long rectangular plots.

— justin nobel, Longreads, "The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip," 13 July 2017
In 2014 and 2015 in Krabi, at least two people were shot dead in what were suspected to be disputes over land used for oil palm plantations.

— Washington Post, "Gunmen in Thai tourist province kill family execution-style," 11 July 2017
Dix, who had grown up on a plantation on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, had gone to the Gulf Coast after suffering a nervous breakdown brought on by a stressful 11-year marriage.

— NOLA.com, "Dear Dorothy: New Orleans and the birth of the modern advice column," 5 July 2017
The soldiers turned their land grants from war into large plantations.

— Cincinnati.com, "Column: Pioneers tamed wilderness to give us Ohio, Kentucky," 28 June 2017
Henry Lee Higginson, 30 years old and freshly discharged from the Union Army, bought with his partners a 5,000-acre plantation in Georgia with the goal of turning a profit by growing cotton.

— john steele gordon, WSJ, "Enterprising Bostonians," 25 June 2017
The plantation home is beautiful, as is the surrounding scenery of heavily drooping trees and hazy horizons through the woods.

— kendra james, Marie Claire, "'The Beguiled' Sanitizes Racism by Masking It with the Pretty Faces of Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning," 23 June 2017

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First Known Use of plantation

15th century

plantation Synonyms

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colony

Related Words

camp, diaspora, exclave, habitation, outpost, post; dependency, mandate, possession, protectorate, territory

Other Agriculture/Gardening Terms

fallow, graft, heirloom, loam, potash, soilage, swath, tilth, windfall

Plantation

geographical name

Definition of Plantation

city in southeastern Florida west of Fort Lauderdale population 84,955

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Definition of plantation for English Language Learners

: a large area of land especially in a hot part of the world where crops (such as cotton) are grown
: a group of trees that have been planted together

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noun plan·ta·tion \ plan-ˈtā-shən \

Definition of plantation for Students

1 :a large area of land where crops are grown and harvested

2 :a settlement in a new country or region

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