as in colonies
a settlement in a new country or region
the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter
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Recent Examples of plantations
Much of my adolescence was spent in Kandy, a city built around a lake, set amid the lush tea plantations of the hill country.
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Eranda Jayawickreme, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
The fire trend is linked to the proliferation of nonnative and highly flammable grasses, particularly on fallowed landscapes once used for sugar and pineapple plantations.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
The colonists awoke from their dream of lucrative plantations to find churches in ashes and molasses cauldrons rusting in the grass.
—Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
Hundreds of thousands of acres, including many former rice plantations, have been conserved in the area between Beaufort and Charleston, and marshes there stretch out like coastal prairies.
—Thad Moore, AJC.com, 10 Mar. 2026
Enslaved women passed messages between plantations.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 8 Mar. 2026
The property was then known as Holly Grove, presumably because its original owner, Spencer Mackay, owned multiple sugar plantations in the Caribbean, including one called Cane Grove.
—Emma Banks, InStyle, 4 Mar. 2026
After consulting police databases, investigators verified that the three men had been linked to recent thefts of opium poppy from legal plantations intended for pharmaceutical use and located in the province of Albacete.
—CBS News, 21 Feb. 2026
Exhibits — including displays of traditional art and the accounts of community members’ experiences — show how isolation on coastal and island plantations led them to create a culture, food and language of their own, drawing heavily on influences carried from Africa.
—Adam Kuehl, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Eranda Jayawickreme, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
The fire trend is linked to the proliferation of nonnative and highly flammable grasses, particularly on fallowed landscapes once used for sugar and pineapple plantations.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
The colonists awoke from their dream of lucrative plantations to find churches in ashes and molasses cauldrons rusting in the grass.
—Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
Hundreds of thousands of acres, including many former rice plantations, have been conserved in the area between Beaufort and Charleston, and marshes there stretch out like coastal prairies.
—Thad Moore, AJC.com, 10 Mar. 2026
Enslaved women passed messages between plantations.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 8 Mar. 2026
The property was then known as Holly Grove, presumably because its original owner, Spencer Mackay, owned multiple sugar plantations in the Caribbean, including one called Cane Grove.
—Emma Banks, InStyle, 4 Mar. 2026
After consulting police databases, investigators verified that the three men had been linked to recent thefts of opium poppy from legal plantations intended for pharmaceutical use and located in the province of Albacete.
—CBS News, 21 Feb. 2026
Exhibits — including displays of traditional art and the accounts of community members’ experiences — show how isolation on coastal and island plantations led them to create a culture, food and language of their own, drawing heavily on influences carried from Africa.
—Adam Kuehl, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plantations
colonies
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Some caves in the region hold up to one million bats, although the research team did not enter caves with large bat colonies due to health concerns, according to the report.—
Amarachi Orie,
CNN Money,
23 Mar. 2026
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The king remains head of state in many former British colonies.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Plantations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plantations. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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