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 Cora, the granddaughter of a woman kidnapped from West Africa and sold into slavery, flees her captor’s plantation, plunging her into the book’s alternate steampunk reality where she is pursued by the merciless slave catcher Ridgeway. — David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Sep. 2026 Fertile lands afforded the capacity to grow export crops that supported farmers and made plantation owners fabulously wealthy. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026 But then Karen turned up something that stunned her, in the 1800s, Sharswood had been the seat of a major, 1,300 acre plantation. — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2026 Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for plantation
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colony
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  • The island is Britain’s oldest colony after Bermuda, having received its charter in 1659 during the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell’s son Richard.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 11 Oct. 2026
  • In 1867, the British government united its North American colonies to form the Canadian Confederation, in part to deter Washington from invading Canada in retaliation for London’s assistance to the Confederacy during the Civil War.
    — Robert B. Zoellick, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2026

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“Plantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plantation. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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