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Definition of plantation in English: plantationnoun planˈteɪʃ(ə)nplɑːnˈteɪʃ(ə)n 1An estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown. Example sentencesExamples - In 1953, Shell bought a second plantation nearby, where sugar cane and tobacco used to grow.
- His coffee plantation across the gorge looks striped from a distance - brown earth sandwiched between ruffled green.
- Gone are the days of sugar plantations, cane trucks and mills on Hawai'i's Big Island.
- By collective farming, I not only mean the actual plantation and growth of crops, but also food-processing and animal husbandry.
- The discussion focuses on slave women who lived on large sugar plantations in the British territories during the later period of slavery.
- Slaves from Africa were used to grow sugar and other plantation crops, it has been argued, because they comprised the least-cost option.
- One of the most prosperous sugar plantations on Barbados is owned by the Church of England.
- This peasant girl is not the one working on a tobacco or coffee plantation.
- Most of it was exported to the Caribbean and the Americas, where it would clothe slaves in the tobacco, sugar, and cotton plantations.
- The farmers of this village produce crops and maintain spice plantations.
- Sometimes, when there was a strike in the plantation or the tea crop was ripe for harvest, he was not available to lead Kerala.
- I grew up on a plantation - or a banana farm, I should say.
- Although forced to work long hours on sugar plantations, they managed to maintain limited gardens of their own.
- It came under French sovereignty in 1715, when African slaves were imported to work on sugar plantations.
- Initially, emigrants were convicted criminals who worked in the sugar, tobacco, and cotton plantations.
- However, much of the world's coffee is grown on large plantations that have been clear-cut out of the jungle.
- By the end of the seventeenth century British plantations were growing a wide variety of crops including tobacco and sugar.
- Believing that Liberia's future lay in agriculture, he purchased a sugar plantation with earnings from his photography.
- Sugar and tobacco plantations were established in the 17th century, worked by imported African slaves.
- In Kona, probably because of the steep terrain, lack of roads, and lack of groundwater, coffee had not yet been developed as a plantation crop.
- 1.1 An area in which trees have been planted, especially for commercial purposes.
Example sentencesExamples - The plantation produces both conifers and deciduous trees for the Christmas tree and landscape markets.
- A conifer plantation should not be less than 1 hectare is size.
- Trees from a plantation were collected from the mangroves in Gazi Bay.
- These trees were introduced from abroad by foresters for fast-growing commercial plantations.
- It is also not unusual to see coffee plantations, pregnant with red berries on either sides of the road.
- Where the forest have not been clear felled there are tree plantations from horizon to horizon.
- Between banana plantations however are large areas unsuited for their cultivation.
- Another fire broke out yesterday afternoon, covering 800 square yards of young trees in a forestry plantation at Brig O'Turk, near Callander.
- Many hectares of uplands are planted in commercial plantations of Pinus taeda.
- So it is likely that the green cover actually came when the Government introduced arboriculture or the plantation of trees for timber.
- The nutmeg tree may be either male or female, and in the plantations one male tree is needed to ensure pollination of about a dozen females.
- Enclosure brought with it hedgerow trees, but there were few additional woodland plantations.
- An inferior project such a plantation of non-native trees may block migratory routes of key species and illegally evict local people.
- There is hilly and flat terrain with plenty of peach and almond tree plantations.
- I remember the shock of seeing not just one but a whole plantation of these legal trees covering acres and acres.
- Nesting success is lower in conifer plantations that have fewer deciduous trees.
- A tree plantation doesn't carry out the same ecological functions as a diverse natural forest.
- You can see tree plantations all over the place with small agricultural strips of land and a few houses.
- Its landscape has separate areas for tree plantations and wild flowers to promote biodiversity.
- They've been working with commercial sandalwood plantations on farms north of the Sterling Ranges.
2mass noun Colonization or settlement of emigrants, especially of English and then Scottish families in Ireland in the 16th–17th centuries under government sponsorship. Example sentencesExamples - The Ulster Plantation has been described as England's only successful colony in Ireland.
- It seems reasonably clear from our historical perspective that Ulster benefitted from the economic modernisation of the Protestant plantation of the 17th Century.
Synonyms community, colony, outpost, encampment colonization, settling, populating, peopling - 2.1historical A colony.
Example sentencesExamples - During the antebellum era on the De Saussure plantation in South Carolina, daily domestic tasks were to be completed in the hours between sunrise and sunset prayers.
- His Ciel Investment is building 250 homes on his family's beachfront plantation at Beau Champ on the island's east coast.
- England's first successful plantation in North America was Virginia, refounded (after several false starts) in 1607.
- The Samuel Townsend plantation in Madison County stocked 1,875 pounds of lard one year.
- On the LeBlanc family cotton plantation in Iberville, the men rolled logs while the women cleaned up the grounds; the men chopped wood and plowed while the women hoed.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting the action of planting seeds): from Latin plantatio(n-), from the verb plantare 'to plant'. nounplanˈtāSH(ə)nplænˈteɪʃ(ə)n 1often with modifier An estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor. Example sentencesExamples - The farmers of this village produce crops and maintain spice plantations.
- This peasant girl is not the one working on a tobacco or coffee plantation.
- It came under French sovereignty in 1715, when African slaves were imported to work on sugar plantations.
- By collective farming, I not only mean the actual plantation and growth of crops, but also food-processing and animal husbandry.
- Sugar and tobacco plantations were established in the 17th century, worked by imported African slaves.
- Sometimes, when there was a strike in the plantation or the tea crop was ripe for harvest, he was not available to lead Kerala.
- Gone are the days of sugar plantations, cane trucks and mills on Hawai'i's Big Island.
- Initially, emigrants were convicted criminals who worked in the sugar, tobacco, and cotton plantations.
- His coffee plantation across the gorge looks striped from a distance - brown earth sandwiched between ruffled green.
- I grew up on a plantation - or a banana farm, I should say.
- By the end of the seventeenth century British plantations were growing a wide variety of crops including tobacco and sugar.
- Most of it was exported to the Caribbean and the Americas, where it would clothe slaves in the tobacco, sugar, and cotton plantations.
- In 1953, Shell bought a second plantation nearby, where sugar cane and tobacco used to grow.
- In Kona, probably because of the steep terrain, lack of roads, and lack of groundwater, coffee had not yet been developed as a plantation crop.
- However, much of the world's coffee is grown on large plantations that have been clear-cut out of the jungle.
- Believing that Liberia's future lay in agriculture, he purchased a sugar plantation with earnings from his photography.
- Slaves from Africa were used to grow sugar and other plantation crops, it has been argued, because they comprised the least-cost option.
- One of the most prosperous sugar plantations on Barbados is owned by the Church of England.
- The discussion focuses on slave women who lived on large sugar plantations in the British territories during the later period of slavery.
- Although forced to work long hours on sugar plantations, they managed to maintain limited gardens of their own.
- 1.1 An area in which trees have been planted, especially for commercial purposes.
Example sentencesExamples - I remember the shock of seeing not just one but a whole plantation of these legal trees covering acres and acres.
- Another fire broke out yesterday afternoon, covering 800 square yards of young trees in a forestry plantation at Brig O'Turk, near Callander.
- They've been working with commercial sandalwood plantations on farms north of the Sterling Ranges.
- Enclosure brought with it hedgerow trees, but there were few additional woodland plantations.
- The plantation produces both conifers and deciduous trees for the Christmas tree and landscape markets.
- It is also not unusual to see coffee plantations, pregnant with red berries on either sides of the road.
- A tree plantation doesn't carry out the same ecological functions as a diverse natural forest.
- Between banana plantations however are large areas unsuited for their cultivation.
- You can see tree plantations all over the place with small agricultural strips of land and a few houses.
- Where the forest have not been clear felled there are tree plantations from horizon to horizon.
- Its landscape has separate areas for tree plantations and wild flowers to promote biodiversity.
- The nutmeg tree may be either male or female, and in the plantations one male tree is needed to ensure pollination of about a dozen females.
- These trees were introduced from abroad by foresters for fast-growing commercial plantations.
- Nesting success is lower in conifer plantations that have fewer deciduous trees.
- Many hectares of uplands are planted in commercial plantations of Pinus taeda.
- A conifer plantation should not be less than 1 hectare is size.
- There is hilly and flat terrain with plenty of peach and almond tree plantations.
- Trees from a plantation were collected from the mangroves in Gazi Bay.
- An inferior project such a plantation of non-native trees may block migratory routes of key species and illegally evict local people.
- So it is likely that the green cover actually came when the Government introduced arboriculture or the plantation of trees for timber.
- 1.2historical A colony.
Example sentencesExamples - On the LeBlanc family cotton plantation in Iberville, the men rolled logs while the women cleaned up the grounds; the men chopped wood and plowed while the women hoed.
- His Ciel Investment is building 250 homes on his family's beachfront plantation at Beau Champ on the island's east coast.
- During the antebellum era on the De Saussure plantation in South Carolina, daily domestic tasks were to be completed in the hours between sunrise and sunset prayers.
- England's first successful plantation in North America was Virginia, refounded (after several false starts) in 1607.
- The Samuel Townsend plantation in Madison County stocked 1,875 pounds of lard one year.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting the action of planting seeds): from Latin plantatio(n-), from the verb plantare ‘to plant’. proper nounplænˈteɪʃ(ə)nplanˈtāSH(ə)n A city in southeastern Florida, west of Fort Lauderdale; population 83,628 (est. 2008).
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