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plantation

plan·ta·tion

US/plænˈteɪʃən/ fairly common

noun

1.

an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)

2.

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.

garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

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Origin

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

Phrases

  • plantation acre
  • plantation door
  • plantation nigger
  • Providence Plantations
  • Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

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