plantation
/plænˈteɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A city in Broward County, Florida, named after the Everglades Plantation Co.
name
Example Sentences
- "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 foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles."
- "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 in the South, actively encourages visitors to pay respects at the African-American cemetery on site."
- "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."
- "Had I plantation of this Iſle my Lord."
- "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 the Catholike King, offering a place to erect a Fort, and commending the largenesse, wholsomnesse, and fertilitie of his Countrey."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantātiō (“planting, transplanting”), from plantātus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of plantāre, + action noun suffix -tiō.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: plantātiō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /plænˈteɪʃən/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Places.