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.]
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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.
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3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
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While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.
--B. Trumbull.
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