Definitions for Plantation

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Plantation plan·ta·tion

Spelling: [plan-tey-shuh n]

IPA: /plænˈteɪ ʃən/

Plantation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 372 anagrams from letters in Plantation (aailnnoptt).

Definitions for Plantation

noun

1. a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers.
2. a group of planted trees or plants.
3. History/Historical. a colony or new settlement. the establishment of a colony or new settlement.
4. Archaic. the planting of seeds, young trees, etc.
5. a town in S Florida.

adjective

1. (of clothing, furnishings, etc.) suitable for a plantation or for a tropical or semitropical country.

Origin of Plantation

1400-50; late Middle English plantacioune Latin plantātiōn- (stem of plantātiō) “a planting.” See plant (verb), -ation

Examples for Plantation

Located in northern California, the plantation Farm Camp takes everything back to the basics.

Hamer married in 1944 and moved with her husband to Ruleville, Miss., where they were sharecroppers on a plantation.

I told him I belonged to a man by the name of Potts, and that I was going to his plantation.

“I think you have more of a plantation mentality than I do,” he said.

There was plenty to do on the plantation, and there was no good cause for sending me away.

I did not stop to put on my clothes until I had got two or three miles from the plantation.

Mississippi was “probably the worst, because of its plantation aristocracy.”

This was my position on the plantation a short time after school was out for the term.

What was to become of the slaves on this plantation now that the master was dead?

After firing that off, he clumsily asked what a plantation mentality is.