plantation

Meaning

A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
A colony established thus.

orchard

field

woodlet

cultivated land

thick forest

sown field

vegetable plot

thick growth of plants

agriculture

Plantation

farm farm, a paddy field

man-made forest

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/plænˈteɪʃən/

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

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