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
Banana farms, coconut plantations and citrus groves perished in the storm.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2025
Police soon zeroed in on another family of transplants, the Lehrers, who had bought the neighboring chocolate plantation Bois Cotlette in 2011.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
None of this surprising given the plantation is said to be built atop a Tunica Indian burial ground.
—Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Europe wanted slaves for American plantations.
—Clifton Crais, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2025
Police soon zeroed in on another family of transplants, the Lehrers, who had bought the neighboring chocolate plantation Bois Cotlette in 2011.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
None of this surprising given the plantation is said to be built atop a Tunica Indian burial ground.
—Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Europe wanted slaves for American plantations.
—Clifton Crais, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plantation
colony
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The territory remained under Portuguese rule, apart from a brief Japanese occupation during the Second World War, until 1975, when a left-wing Portuguese government pledged to withdraw from all its colonies.—
Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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While that might not seem like a ton of bats, the team calculated that even a small rat colony (roughly 15 rats) could kill upwards of seven percent of the roughly 30,000 bats that spend their winters in Segeberg.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Plantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plantation. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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