plantation.
A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
Meaning & usage
A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
A colony established thus.
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (former official name of Rhode Island, United States)
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantātiō (“planting, transplanting”), from plantātus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of plantāre, + action noun suffix -tiō.
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