plantocrat
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A ruler of a plantocracy.
Example Sentences
- "[…] whilst the injurious consequences of the proposed wholesale introduction of heathen men, without their families, will still ensue to the present inhabitants of the land—to the poor deluded immigrants themselves—and to the general resources of the colony, upon which, no doubt, our plantocrat rulers will make the burden ultimately to fall."
- "Bond knew Jamaica well, so he asked to be controlled from there and to pass as a Jamaican plantocrat whose father had made his pile in tobacco and sugar and who chose to play it away on the stock markets and in casinos."
- "Indeed, Edward Long, the renowned Jamaican plantocrat, felt obliged to concede that these creole whites were so degenerate that even the "better sort" of slaves despised them (Long 1774:289)."