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Plantation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PLANTA'TION, n. [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.
PLANT'-CANE, n. In the West Indies, the original plants of the sugar cane, produced from germs placed in the ground; or canes of the first growth, in distinction from the ratoons, or sprouts from the roots of canes which have been cut.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, plantation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. a usually large group of plants and especially trees under cultivation 2. a settlement in a new country or region <Plymouth Plantation> 3. a. a place that is planted or under cultivation b. an agricultural estate usually worked by resident labor

Merriam Webster's

geographical name city SE Florida W of Fort Lauderdale population 82,934

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an estate on which cotton, tobacco, etc. is cultivated, esp. in former colonies, formerly by slave labour. 2 an area planted with trees etc. 3 hist. a colony; colonization. Phrases and idioms: plantation song a song of the kind formerly sung by Blacks on American plantations. Etymology: ME f. OF plantation or L plantatio (as PLANT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(plantations) 1. A plantation is a large piece of land, especially in a tropical country, where crops such as rubber, coffee, tea, or sugar are grown. ...banana plantations in Costa Rica. N-COUNT 2. A plantation is a large number of trees that have been planted together. ...a plantation of almond trees. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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