Definition of Plantation. Meaning of Plantation. Synonyms of Plantation

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Definition of Plantation

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.] 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.

Meaning of Plantation from wikipedia

- Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so...
- Plantation is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the South Florida metropolitan area. The city's name comes from the previous...
- Ashland Plantation, also known as the Belle Helene or Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation, is a historic building, built in 1841, that was a plantation estate...
- Magnolia Plantation may refer to: in the United States (by state) Magnolia Plantation, Florida Magnolia Mound, St. Bernard, Louisiana, listed on the National...
- A tree plantation, forest plantation, plantation forest, timber plantation or tree farm is a forest planted for high volume production of wood, usually...
- A plantation economy is an economy based on agricultural m**** production, usually of a few commodity crops, grown on large farms worked by laborers or...
- A slave plantation was an agricultural farm that used enslaved people for labour. The practice was abolished in most places during the 19th century. Planters...
- Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century. The complex included everything...
- Plantations in 16th- and 17th-century Ireland (Irish: Plandálacha na hÉireann) involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the English Crown and...
- Goodwood Plantation (also known as Old Croom Mansion) was a mid-sized slave plantation that grew cotton on about 1,675 acres (7 km2) in central Leon County...