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Webster 1913 Edition


Plantation

Plan-ta′tion

,
Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Plantation

PLANTA'TION

,
Noun.
[L. plantatio, from planto, to plant.]
1.
The act of planting or setting in the earth for growth.
2.
The place planted; applied to ground planted with trees,as an orchard or the like.
3.
In the United States and the West Indies, a cultivated estate; a farm. In the United States, this word is applied to an estate, a tract of land occupied and cultivated, in those states only where the labor is performed by slaves,and where the land is more or less appropriated to the culture of tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton, that is, from Maryland to Georgia inclusive, on the Atlantic, and in the western states where the land is appropriated to the same articles or to the culture of the sugar cane. From Maryland, northward and eastward,estates in land are called farms.
4.
An original settlement in a new country; a town or village planted.
While these plantations were forming in Connecticut--
5.
A colony.
6.
A first planting; introduction; establishment; as the plantation of christianity in England.

Definition 2024


plantation

plantation

English

Noun

plantation (plural plantations)

  1. Large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
    • 2013 June 29, Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
      Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
  2. Area where trees are planted for commercial purposes.
  3. The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Caribbean.

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Translations


French

Noun

plantation f (plural plantations)

  1. planting
  2. plantation

Interlingua

Etymology

From the Interlingua-English Dictionary.

From English plantation, from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantātiō (planting, transplanting), from plantātus (planted), the perfect passive participle of plantāre, + action noun suffix -tiō.

Noun

plantation (plural plantationes)

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

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