plantation

/plænˈteɪʃən/

plantation noun: a large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.

Noun

plantation (countable and uncountable, plural plantations)

A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
- 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...2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2019, page 29
- Across the street from the church, which is lovingly known as Mother Emanuel, is Marion Park. Until recently, this where a statue of Vice President John C. Calhoun, a slaveowner and staunch supporter of antebellum plantation slavery, stood. […] Drayton Hall, one of the oldest surviving plantations...2020 August 31, Dartinia Hull, “‘Not everything is pretty here’: Charleston tourism reckons with slavery and racism”, in CNN
An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
- She used to bound through the plantations, her eye first caught by one object, then another, gazing round for something to admire and to love. Now she walked slowly, her eyes fixed on the ground, as if, in all the wide fair world, there was nothing to attract nor to interest.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A First Disappointment”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 268
(historical) The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
- Had I plantation of this Iſle my Lord.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
(historical) A colony established thus.
- Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (former official name of Rhode Island, United States)
- The King of Beni, the Lord of seven Kingdomes hath written to mee for Baptisme : but I cannot forsake these two Kings till I have other helpe. This Countrey is as healthfull as any I ever came in, and Sierra Leona would be a fit place for a plantation of the Society : for which King Philip wrote to...1625, Samuel Purchas, “The Jesuites gleanings in Africa to Christian Religion, gathered out of their owne writings”, in Pvrchas His Pilgrimes, volume IX, London, →OCLC, page 263

Proper noun capitalized: Plantation

Plantation

A city in Broward County, Florida, named after the Everglades Plantation Co.
A census-designated place in Sarasota County, Florida.

plantation meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

plantation in Hindi

large farm: बाग़ान bāġān, वृक्षारोपण vŕkṣāropaṇ

plantation in Tamil

பயிர் செய்தல் அல்லது செய்கை, தோட்டம்

plantation in Urdu

شجرکاری

plantation in Bengali

plantation, grove: বাগান bagan

More languagesFewer languages

plantation in Telugu: తోటల పెంపకం
plantation in Malayalam: നടീൽ, തോപ്പ്, തോട്ടം, കുടിയേറ്റസ്ഥലം
plantation in Kannada: ನೆಡುತೋಪು, ತೋಟ, ಕಾನು
plantation in Assamese: বাৰী bari
plantation in Arabic: مَزْرَعَة mazraʕa
plantation in Malay: perladangan, ladang, estet
plantation in Indonesian: perkebunan
plantation in Thai: ไร่ râi
plantation in Vietnamese: đồn điền
plantation in Myanmar: စိုက်ခင်း cuikhkang:

Examples of plantation in a sentence

The laſt groweth neere the riuer of Canada, where the French plantation in America is ſeated.1629, John Parkinson, “The Garden of pleaſant Flowers”, in Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris, London: Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng...
John Maſon, a young and enterpriſing man, had been in Newfoundland as governor of the plantation made there in 1611, and was now returned into England.1887 [1871 June 14], Charles Wesley Tuttle, “Memoir of Capt. John Mason”, in Capt. John Mason, the Founder of New Hampshire, Boston: Prince...

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Forms of plantation

plural	plantations

Plural of plantation: plantations

Origin of plantation

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

Words formed from plantation

Phrases with plantation

Words that rhyme with plantation

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Questions about plantation

What does plantation mean?: Plantation means a large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
What is plantation in Hindi?: Plantation in Hindi is बाग़ान (bāġān), वृक्षारोपण (vŕkṣāropaṇ). See Plantation meaning in Hindi.
How do you use plantation in a sentence?: The laſt groweth neere the riuer of Canada, where the French plantation in America is ſeated.
What part of speech is plantation?: Plantation can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce plantation?: Plantation is pronounced /plænˈteɪʃən/ (US).
What is the plural of plantation?: The plural of plantation is plantations.

Words near plantation in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: plantation (page history and authors); Plantation (page history and authors); plantation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); plantation (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); বাগান (Bengali) (page history and authors); plantation (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); plantation (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); plantation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বাৰী (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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