The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
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.
An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. Harriet Ann Jacobs
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. Diane Abbott
The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength. Ariel Sharon
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India. Julie Christie
If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. Harriet Ann Jacobs
plantation in Afrikaans is plantasie
plantation in Dutch is kwekerij, plantage
plantation in German is Pflanzung
plantation in Swedish is plantering, plantage, koloni
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