plantation

noun

plan-ˈtā-shən How to pronounce plantation (audio)
Definition of plantationnext
as in colony
a settlement in a new country or region the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter

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Recent Examples of plantation Matchstick-dry pine plantations in Gironde, France generated what is believed to be that country’s first-ever pyroCb just last week. — John Vaillant, Time, 8 Aug. 2026 Kuda kepang was introduced to the southern Malaysian state of Johor by Javanese migrants who had settled in the peninsula as plantation workers and farmers in the 1910s through the 1930s. — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 7 Aug. 2026 For years, Florida environmental groups accused the family’s operations south of Lake Okeechobee of contributing phosphorus pollution to the Everglades, while critics questioned labor conditions on Dominican Republic plantations. — Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026 These snakes often inhabit plantations, forests, and land near settlements. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for plantation
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colony
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  • With an ecosystem as capricious as this, the local wildlife is born and bred to go with the flow—think gentle-but-giant humpback whales, colonies of industrious beavers, and torpedoing peregrine falcons, the fastest animals on Earth.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Aug. 2026
  • If such a future comes to fruition, Swope added, his hope is that such extraterrestrial colonies would be governed by rules reminiscent of Western ideals and democratic principles.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
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