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Definition of Plantation
1. Noun. An estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas).
2. Noun. 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. Noun. Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth.
Specialized synonyms: Apple Orchard, Lemon Grove, Orange Grove, Peach Orchard
Generic synonyms: Garden
Definition of Plantation
1. n. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
Definition of Plantation
1. Noun. Large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers. ¹
2. Noun. The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Caribbean. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plantation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Plantation
1. 1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. 2. The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; especially, 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) Origin: L. Plantatio: cf. F. Plantation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plantation
Literary usage of Plantation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"Fisk abandoned the plantation about that time, has never returned, never contested
that suit and never afterwards set up any claim to the plantation. ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1913)
"Timberlake plantation. They show that the location and construction of this new
line я oí levee was approved by the local levee au- • thorities, ..."
3. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... and a certain rent for every particular plantation, after eleven years, if I,
or any one from me, or in my name, came to demand it, producing an ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Where employers agreed to convey the house and lot occupied by employé when they
should sell their plantation, in order to retain employe's services, ..."
5. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... in the said plantation, in the Collony in New- England, do afterwards withdraw,
hide, and conceale themselves, or refuse to go thither, after they have ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Nevertheless, thanks to the energy of a few servitors and above all to the industry
of the Scots, the plantation struck its roots deep into the soil of ..."
7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"Fisk abandoned the plantation about that time, has never returned, never contested
that suit and never afterwards set up any claim to the plantation. ..."
8. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1913)
"Timberlake plantation. They show that the location and construction of this new
line я oí levee was approved by the local levee au- • thorities, ..."
9. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... and a certain rent for every particular plantation, after eleven years, if I,
or any one from me, or in my name, came to demand it, producing an ..."
10. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Where employers agreed to convey the house and lot occupied by employé when they
should sell their plantation, in order to retain employe's services, ..."
11. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... in the said plantation, in the Collony in New- England, do afterwards withdraw,
hide, and conceale themselves, or refuse to go thither, after they have ..."
12. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Nevertheless, thanks to the energy of a few servitors and above all to the industry
of the Scots, the plantation struck its roots deep into the soil of ..."
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