Plantation

Quick meaning: Plantation is a noun meaning A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.

Meaning

A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.

More Meanings

1. An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
2. (historical) A colony established thus.
3. (historical) The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.

Example Sentences

Had I plantation of this Iſle my Lord.

Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (former official name of Rhode Island, United States)

Capt. John Maſon, a young and enterpriſing man, had been in Newfoundland as governor of the plantation made there in 1611, and was now returned into England. He immediately joined Gorges in ſettling New England, and their joint enterpriſe ſucceeded.

She used to bound through the plantations, her eye first caught by one object, then another, gazing round for something to admire and to love. Now she walked slowly, her eyes fixed on the ground, as if, in all the wide fair world, there was nothing to attract nor to interest.

Word Forms

• plantations

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Related dictionary entries include farmer, farm, farming, field, agriculture, cultivation.

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