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plantation

US/plænˈteɪʃən/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,574 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: plantations

A plantation is a large estate where one crop is grown. A tea plantation, a rubber plantation, plantation workers.

In the Americas the word carries the history of slavery with it and cannot be used neutrally there. Of forestry it is plain description, and a conifer plantation is a planted block rather than a wood.

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Definitions of plantation

  1. 1nounplantationA large estate where one crop is grown.B2

    “Workers on the tea plantation pick the leaves by hand.”

plantation is an estate.

Where it comes from

Latin plantatio means a planting, from plantare, to plant.

  1. Latin

    plantātiō — planting, transplanting

  2. Middle French

    plantation

  3. English, today

    plantation

Built from

  • plantātus · Latin — planted

Middle French plantation, from Latin plantātiō (“planting, transplanting”), from plantātus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of planto, + action noun suffix -tiō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

plantation in the wild

  • The term "plantation" was used in most British colonies but very rarely in the United Kingdom itself in this sense.

    Plantation

  • Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family is a historical novel, later a movie, that brought knowledge of the "children of the plantation" to public attention.

    Children of the plantation

  • Among those involved in planning and overseeing the plantation were King James, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Arthur Chichester, and the Attorney-General for Ireland, John Davies.

    Plantation of Ulster

  • The plantation led to the founding of many of Ulster's towns and created a separate and lasting Ulster Protestant community in the province with ties to Britain.

    Plantation of Ulster

  • The longer a crop's harvest period, the more efficient plantations become.

    Plantation economy

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