About The Word Plantation
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Plantation
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What's The Definition Of Plantation?
[n] garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
[n] a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America); "the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century" [n] an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) Synonyms | Synonyms for Plantation: grove | orchard | woodlet Related Terms | Find terms related to Plantation: anchorage | arable land | barnyard | barton | cattle ranch | chicken farm | clump | collective farm | colonization | cotton plantation | croft | crop | dairy farm | demesne | demesne farm | dry farm | dude ranch | empeoplement | establishment | factory farm | fallow | farm | farmery | farmhold | farmland | farmplace | farmstead | farmyard | fixation | foundation | fruit farm | fur farm | grain farm | grange | grassland | growth | hacienda | hassock | homecroft | homefarm | homestead | inauguration | inhabiting | initiation | installation | installment | investiture | kibbutz | kolkhoz | location | lodgment | mains | manor farm | mooring | orchard | pasture | pen | peoplement | peopling | planting | population | poultry farm | ranch | rancheria | rancho | settlement | settling | sheep farm | stand | station | steading | stock farm | toft | truck farm | tuft | tussock See Also | acres | apple orchard | colony | demesne | estate | garden | land | landed estate | lemon grove | orange grove | peach orchard | settlement Plantation In Webster's Dictionary \Plan*ta"tion\, n. [L. plantatio: cf. F. plantation.]
1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth
for growth. [R.]
2. The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece
of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in
the United States and West Indies, a large estate
appropriated to the production of the more important
crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate;
as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.
3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.
--B. Trumbull.
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