Found 2 items, similar to Plantation.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: plantation plantation n 1: an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) 2: 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” 3: garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth [syn: grove, woodlet, orchard]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Plantation Plantation \Plan*ta"tion\, n. [L. plantatio: cf. F. plantation.] 1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. [R.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony. [1913 Webster] While these plantations were forming in Connecticut. --B. Trumbull. [1913 Webster]