English Explanatory Dictionary

plantation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
  2. An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
  3. The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
  4. A colony established thus.

Pronunciation

/plænˈteɪʃən/ en-us-plantation.ogg

Word forms

plantation plantations

Etymology

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

Related words

plant planter

Derived words

displantation nonplantation plantation acre plantation door plantationer plantationlike plantation nigger Plantationocene Providence Plantations Rhode Island and Providence Plantations replantation
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