plan·ta·tion

(plăn-tā′shən)

1. An area under cultivation.

2. A group of cultivated trees or plants.

3. A large estate or farm on which crops are raised, often by resident workers.

4. A newly established settlement; a colony.

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plantation

(plænˈteɪʃən)

1. (Forestry) an estate, esp in tropical countries, where cash crops such as rubber, oil palm, etc, are grown on a large scale

2. (Forestry) a group of cultivated trees or plants

3. (Historical Terms) (formerly) a colony or group of settlers

4. (Agriculture) rare the planting of seeds, shoots, etc

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plan•ta•tion

(plænˈteɪ ʃən)

n.

1. an estate, esp. in a tropical or semitropical country, usu. worked by resident laborers: a coffee plantation.

2. a group of planted trees or plants.

3. a colony or new settlement.

4. Archaic. the planting of seeds, trees, etc.

[1400–50; < Latin]

Plan•ta•tion

(plænˈteɪ ʃən)

n.

a town in S Florida. 61,130.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	plantation - an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) acres, demesne, landed estate, estate, land - extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" orangery - a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas
	2.	Plantation - 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" colony, settlement - a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris" North America - a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
	3.	plantation - garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth orchard, woodlet, grove apple orchard - a grove of apple trees garden - a plot of ground where plants are cultivated lemon grove - a grove of lemon trees orange grove - grove of orange trees peach orchard - a grove of peach trees

Translations

مَزْرَعَه، مكان مَزروع بالأشْجارمَعْمَل ، مَزْرَعَه

hájplantážsad

plantage

ültetvény

ekraplantekra

piantagione albereto

plantáž

plantaža

fidanlıkkoruplântasyon

植树造林种植园

plantation

[plænˈteɪʃən] N [of tea, sugar etc] → plantación f; (= large estate) → hacienda f; [of trees] → arboleda f; [of young trees] → plantel m (Hist) → colonia f

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plantation

[plɑːnˈteɪʃ^ən] n → plantation f

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plantation

n → Plantage f, → Pflanzung f; (of trees) → Schonung f, → Anpflanzung f

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plantation

[plænˈteɪʃ/ən] n → piantagione f

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plant

(plaːnt) noun

1. anything growing from the ground, having a stem, a root and leaves. flowering/tropical plants.

2. industrial machinery. engineering plant.

3. a factory.

verb

1. to put (something) into the ground so that it will grow. We have planted vegetables in the garden.

2. to make (a garden etc); to cause (a garden etc) to have (plants etc) growing in it. The garden was planted with shrubs; We're going to plant an orchard.

3. to place heavily or firmly. He planted himself between her and the door.

4. to put in someone's possession, especially as false evidence. He claimed that the police had planted the weapon on his brother.

planˈtation (plӕn-) noun

1. a place that has been planted with trees.

2. a piece of land or estate for growing certain crops, especially cotton, sugar, rubber, tea and tobacco. He owned a rubber plantation in Malaysia.

ˈplanter noun

the owner of a plantation for growing tea, rubber etc. a tea-planter.

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Upon those considerations, I went on with telling my husband the absolute necessity there was of our not settling in Potomac River, at least that we should be presently made public there; whereas if we went to any other place in the world, we should come in with as much reputation as any family that came to plant; that, as it was always agreeable to the inhabitants to have families come among them to plant, who brought substance with them, either to purchase plantations or begin new ones, so we should be sure of a kind, agreeable reception, and that without any possibility of a discovery of our circumstances.

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He divided things so justly, and so much to every one's satisfaction, that they only desired one general writing under my hand for the whole, which I caused to be drawn up, and signed and sealed, setting out the bounds and situation of every man's plantation, and testifying that I gave them thereby severally a right to the whole possession and inheritance of the respective plantations or farms, with their improvements, to them and their heirs, reserving all the rest of the island as my own property, and a certain rent for every particular plantation after eleven years, if I, or any one from me, or in my name, came to demand it, producing an attested copy of the same writing.

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PLANTATIONS are amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical works.

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I have heard reports to the effect that he was a white man who lived on one of the near-by plantations. Whoever he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing in any way for my rearing.

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"Mister Haggin" was the sound Jerry had always heard uttered by Bob, the clerk, and by Derby, the foreman on the plantation, when they addressed his master.

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"She died on the last plantation two months ago, and she died once before that when you were working for me last year," said the planter, who knew something of the ways of nativedom.

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In the wagon was seated Simon Legree and the two women, still fettered together, were stowed away with some baggage in the back part of it, and the whole company were seeking Legree's plantation, which lay a good distance off.

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For that most dreaded of Solomon Island scourges, dysentery, had struck Berande plantation, and he was all alone to cope with it.

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Williamson strolled leisurely down the gravel walk, plucking a flower as he went, passed across the road and into the pasture, pausing a moment as he closed the gate leading into it, to greet a passing neighbor, Armour Wren, who lived on an adjoining plantation. Mr.

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They lived in one house, upon the home plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd.

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I had a plantation on the peninsula, and I wanted a white overseer.

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I call him my neighbour, because his plantation lay next to mine, and we went on very sociably together.

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