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plantation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /plænˈteɪʃən/ (US)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
   • 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. 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2019, page 29:
   • 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. 2020 August 31, Dartinia Hull, “‘Not everything is pretty here’: Charleston tourism reckons with slavery and racism”, in CNN:
2. (countable, uncountable) An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
   • 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. 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A First Disappointment”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 268:
3. (countable, historical, uncountable) The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
   • Had I plantation of this Iſle my Lord. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 7:
4. (countable, historical, uncountable) A colony established thus.
   • 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. 1625, Samuel Purchas, “The Jesuites gleanings in Africa to Christian Religion, gathered out of their owne writings”, in Pvrchas His Pilgrimes, volume IX, London, →OCLC, page 263:
   • All theſe Bell-flowers do grow in our Gardens, where they are cheriſhed for the beautie of their flowers. The Couentry Bels doe not grow wilde in any of the parts about Couentry, as I am credibly informed by a faithfull Apothecary dwelling there, called Maſter Brian Ball, but are nouriſhed in Gardens with them, as they are in other places. The laſt groweth neere the riuer of Canada, where the French plantation in America is ſeated. 1629, John Parkinson, “The Garden of pleaſant Flowers”, in Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris, London: Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng, →OCLC, page 357:
   • Capt. John Maſon, a young and enterpriſing man, had been in Newfoundland as governor of the plantation made there in 1611, and was now returned into England. He immediately joined Gorges in ſettling New England, and their joint enterpriſe ſucceeded. 1887 [1871 June 14], Charles Wesley Tuttle, “Memoir of Capt. John Mason”, in Capt. John Mason, the Founder of New Hampshire, Boston: Prince Society, →OCLC, page 6:
   • Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (former official name of Rhode Island, United States)

Forms

Deriveds

Rhode Island and Providence Plantations · plantationlike · plantation nigger · nonplantation · plantation acre · plantation door · Plantationocene · replantation · plantationer · Providence Plantations · displantation

Relateds

planter (importation of people to displace local persons) · plant

Translations (94)

fi kolonisaatio (importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population) · nb plantasje (large farm) · ky плантация (large farm) · ln elanga (large farm) · fi kolonia (colony thus established) · ms ladang (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · ia plantation (large farm) · la viridārium (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · rar repo (large farm) · fi suurtila (large farm) · mi urupuia (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · eo plantaro (large farm) · fa-ira مَزْرَعِه (large farm) · da plantage (large farm) · sl plantaža (large farm) · th ไร่ (large farm) · eo plantejo (large farm) · be планта́цыя (large farm) · fa-ira کِشْتزارِ کَلان (large farm) · fr plantation (large farm) · ja プランテーション (large farm) · be плянта́цыя (large farm) · fo viðarlund (large farm) · ms perladangan (large farm) · fi siirtokunta (colony thus established) · ko 재배지 (large farm) · he מַטָּע (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · tr plantasyon (large farm) · lt plantacija (large farm) · ms estet (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · srn pranasi (large farm) · hu ültetvény (large farm) · ru насажде́ние (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · nl aanplanting (large farm) · lv plantācija (large farm) · uz plantatsiya (large farm) · sv plantage (large farm) · nl plantage (large farm) · ja 栽培所 (large farm) · cs plantáž (large farm) · ru планта́ция (large farm) · sm fusi (large farm) · sh планта́жа (large farm) · es plantación (large farm) · mk планта́жа (large farm) · ro plantație (large farm) · cmn 種植園 /种植园 (large farm) · ja 農園 (large farm) · hy պլանտացիա (large farm) · fi puuviljelmä (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · tg мазраа (large farm) · it piantagione (large farm) · sk plantáž (large farm) · ar مَزْرَعَة (large farm) · io plantacerio (large farm) · tg киштзор (large farm) · pt plantação (large farm) · hi वृक्षारोपण (large farm) · uk планта́ція (large farm) · fj vuci (large farm) · sh plantáža (large farm) · ty paʻi (large farm) · sq plantacion (large farm) · pl plantacja (large farm) · rar paʻi (large farm) · az plantasiya (large farm) · cmn 植被 (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · ro plantare (large farm) · el φυτεία (large farm) · kk плантация (large farm) · km ចំការ (large farm) · fi puuplantaasi (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · es plantío (large farm) · ka პლანტაცია (large farm) · is plantekra (large farm) · ko 플랜테이션 (large farm) · lo ໄຮ່ (large farm) · pt fazenda (large farm) · et istandus (large farm) · de Plantage (large farm) · fi viljelymetsä (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · hi बाग़ान (large farm) · hy տնկադաշտ (large farm) · id perkebunan (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · vi đồn điền (large farm) · bg насажде́ние (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · tg плантатсия (large farm) · la plantātiō (large farm) · ca plantació (large farm) · sw shamba (large farm) · hu ültetvény (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes) · id perkebunan (large farm) · bg планта́ция (large farm) · my စိုက်ခင်း (large farm)