Synonyms of plant

plant 1 of 2

noun

as in factory

a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods

a furniture plant that employs hundreds of people

Synonyms & Similar Words

• factory
• mill
• shop
• works
• workshop
• manufactory
• workplace
• studio
• yard
• sweatshop
• workroom
• atelier

plant

2 of 2

verb

ˈplant 

1

as in to seed

to put or set into the ground to grow

I'll plant the marigold seeds in the spring

Synonyms & Similar Words

• seed
• put in
• drill
• transplant
• sow
• scatter
• replant
• bed
• pot
• broadcast
• reseed
• overseed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• gather
• harvest
• reap

2

as in to establish

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of

soon the sect had planted churches across the breadth of the colony

Synonyms & Similar Words

• establish
• pioneer
• found
• initiate
• launch
• create
• introduce
• institute
• begin
• construct
• inaugurate
• start
• constitute
• originate
• organize
• innovate
• manufacture
• develop
• produce
• set up
• author
• invent
• fund
• devise
• finance
• make up
• cook (up)
• father
• expand
• conceive
• think (up)
• enlarge
• subsidize
• fabricate
• endow
• concoct
• arrange
• contrive
• systematize
• systemize
• reinitiate
• put up
• relaunch
• reinstitute
• refound

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• close (down)
• shut (up)
• stop
• phase out
• abolish
• nullify
• finish
• end
• terminate
• annul
• halt
• annihilate
• wind up
• round (off or out)
• wrap up

3

as in to breed

to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set

a profound respect for Mother Nature that had been planted by long experience with hurricanes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• breed
• root
• implant
• sow
• lodge
• embed
• inculcate
• inseminate
• instill
• drive
• enroot
• infix
• invest
• pound
• hammer
• inoculate
• infuse
• steep
• entrench
• imbue
• suffuse
• fix
• ingrain

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of plant

Noun

Out back, a small sewage-treatment plant converts bodily waste from two flanking portable toilets into purified water, which is piped into a large tank in which yet another unclothed woman, wearing a scuba mouthpiece, floats for four hours at a time. —Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026

This includes physical assets - like plants, equipment, and products - to concepts like customer orders or financial transactions. —Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026

Verb

Sadly, Maui Gold is now the last pineapple farm standing on the island, down to 750 acres (300 of them planted), with just 20 people working the farm. —Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 14 May 2026

In 2021—slightly more than a decade after opening its New York design office—the group added a design office in Barcelona, Spain, planting roots in Europe. —Sj Studio, Footwear News, 14 May 2026