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plantation

(plɑːnteɪʃən, plæn-)
Word forms: plural plantations
1. countable noun
A plantation is a large piece of land, especially in a tropical country, where crops such as rubber, coffee, tea, or sugar are grown.
...banana plantations in Costa Rica.
2. countable noun
A plantation is a large number of trees that have been planted together.
...a plantation of almond trees. [+ of]

plantation in British English

(plænˈteɪʃən)
noun
1. 
an estate, esp in tropical countries, where cash crops such as rubber, oil palm, etc, are grown on a large scale
2. 
a group of cultivated trees or plants
3. 
(formerly) a colony or group of settlers
4.  rare
the planting of seeds, shoots, etc

Plantation in American English

(plænˈteɪʃən)
city in SE Fla., near Fort Lauderdale: pop. 83,000
Word origin
prob. named for the large town lots, called plantations by early settlers

plantation in American English

(plænˈteɪʃən)
noun
1.  Archaic
a colony or new settlement
2.  US
an area growing cultivated crops
3. 
an estate, as in a tropical or semitropical region, cultivated by workers living on it
a sugar plantation
4. 
a large, cultivated planting of trees
a rubber plantation
Word origin
L plantatio < plantare, to plant

Examples of 'plantation' in a sentence
plantation

The researchers found that many protected areas had already been lost to rubber plantations.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The only other essential is a plantation of coffee.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We have not cleared rainforest for oil palm plantation for ten years.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Lake used to manage the sugar plantation that once stood here.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
 Banana plantations and forests give way to volcanic cones and lava fields.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Here the problem is that rainforest is being destroyed to make palm oil plantations.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He grew up seeing trucks driving to the local sugar cane plantation.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
 Banana plantations and chestnut orchards compete for space with exuberant pines.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But the industry says expanding sugar cane plantations and new ethanol plants will quickly solve the problem.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Other evidence suggests that large plantation owners were the only segment of the population to profit so greatly.
Divine, Robert A. (editor) & Breen, T. H & Frederickson, George M & Williams, R. Hal America Past and Present (1995)
Their forest is being burned to the ground and ripped out to make way for palm oil plantations.
The Sun (2013)
The tropical rainforests where they live are being felled for timber and the land cleared for palm oil plantations.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Up country are tea plantations, a pineapple farm and a remote northeast corner.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Undaunted, he next tried to carve a rubber plantation out of the rainforest.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Then, a field of corn or a plantation of bananas makes an irresistible opportunity.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
There were also sugar plantations in Jamaica.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is covered in dense jungle interspersed with rubber and fruit plantations, and is protected as a national park.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The interior is green and mountainous, a landscape of peaks and fertile valleys with banana plantations and papaya trees.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
A few large plantations and many small farms -- this was the pattern.
Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
My grandmother moved to Barbados in the 1940s and bought a large plantation house.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It was Mississippi's largest cotton plantation.
The Sun (2008)
It's on a cardamom, coffee and pepper plantation in a very comfortable guesthouse where the cooking is exemplary.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)

In other languages
plantation

British English: plantation NOUN
A plantation is a large piece of land where crops such as rubber, coffee, tea, or sugar are grown.
...banana plantations.
  • American English: plantation
  • Brazilian Portuguese: plantação
  • Chinese: > 种植园尤指热带国家的橡胶、咖啡、茶、甘蔗
  • European Spanish: plantación
  • French: plantation
  • German: Plantage
  • Italian: piantagione
  • Japanese: 農園
  • Korean: > 재배 농장특히 열대 지역의
  • European Portuguese: plantação
  • Latin American Spanish: plantación

Chinese translation of 'plantation'

plantation

(plænˈteɪʃən)

n (c)

  1. (for tea, rubber, sugar) 种(種)植园(園) (zhòngzhíyuán) (个(個), gè)
  2. [of trees] 人工林 (réngōnglín)
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