plantation

noun

plan·ta·tion | \ plan-ˈtā-shən

Definition of plantation

(Entry 1 of 2)

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

2 : a settlement in a new country or region Plymouth Plantation

3a : a place that is planted or under cultivation

b : an agricultural estate usually worked by resident labor

Plantation

geographical name

Definition of Plantation (Entry 2 of 2)

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

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Noun

the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter

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For dessert choose watalappan, a version of flan made with coconut milk, and Ceylon tea made from leaves grown on a Sri Lankan plantation. — Bill Addison, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Seek out Sri Lankan hoppers and fish curry at Apey Kade in Tarzana," 20 June 2019 Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana A slave cabin from a South Carolina plantation sits among the exhibits at the NMAAHC. — National Geographic, "13 destinations for African-American history and culture," 23 May 2019 The case centered on approximately 119 million pounds of uranium ore beneath an old plantation just north of the Virginia-North Carolina border. — Washington Post, "Supreme Court upholds Virginia’s decades-old ban on uranium mining," 17 June 2019 Moïse who began going by the moniker Neg Bannan nan, or Banana Man, spoke about his 2,500-acre Agritrans banana plantation in northeast Haiti. — miamiherald, "Haiti president accused of embezzlement scheme in government audit of Venezuela aid money," 4 June 2019 An 18th-century plantation of henequen (an agave-like plant), Hacienda Mucuyché is home to two cenotes that supposedly hosted Carlota, a Belgian princess who briefly became Empress of Mexico when Napoleon III named her husband emperor. — National Geographic, "Visit these breathtaking underwater caves in the Yucatán Peninsula," 31 May 2019 Christina Bates owns a former plantation known as Huspa in Sheldon, S.C. — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, "The Secluded Island Hideaways for America’s Rich and Famous," 23 Aug. 2018 Rousseau’s ideas were not the only influences to shape a society built from the ashes of its old plantations. — Joshua Jelly-schapiro, The New York Review of Books, "Picturing Haiti’s Freemasons," 2 June 2018 When Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, at least 4 million slaves had been brought there from Africa to work on sugar plantations and in other sectors of the country's flourishing economy. — Karla Mendes, The Christian Science Monitor, "Brazilian descendants of slaves fight for land titles," 6 Mar. 2018

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