plantation

1. n. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. Source: opted

2. n. The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation. Source: opted

3. n. An original settlement in a new country; a colony. Source: opted

4. n. an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) Source: wordnet

5. n. garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth Source: wordnet

6. n. a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America) Source: wordnet

7. 1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. [R.] 2. The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation. 3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony. While these plantations were forming in Connecticut. B. Trumbull. Source: webster

8. n:100 n. an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) n. a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America) Source: ecdict

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