Thesaurus results for PLANTATION

plantation

noun

plan-ˈtā-shən

Definition of plantation next

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 After all, 70 percent of all African people kidnapped as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade were enslaved on sugar plantations. —

Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 12 June 2026 While other plantations may serve as venues today, Whitney Plantation won’t let history be erased or shied away from. —

Usa Today Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026 Sri Lanka, off the southeastern coast of India, packs lush tea plantations, ancient Buddhist ruins, biodiversity and pristine beaches into one of the most affordable trips on this list — though its popularity is rising fast. —

Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026 Unaccustomed to being challenged in person, the southern plantation owners who ran the Senate were at first stunned, and then outraged. —

Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for plantation

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colony

Noun

In the meantime, they are being hand-fed, like the rest of the Penguin Island colony.

— CBS News, CBS News, 13 June 2026
The company is going public largely to secure the massive capital required to fund Musk’s ultimate goal of space exploration and the establishment of human colonies on Mars.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026