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plantation
1[ plan-tey-shuhn ]
noun
- a large farm or estate in a tropical or semitropical zone, for the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugarcane, etc., typically by enslaved, unpaid, or low-wage resident laborers.
- a group of planted trees or plants.
- History/Historical.
- a colony or new settlement.
- the establishment of a colony or new settlement.
- Archaic. the planting of seeds, young trees, etc.
adjective
- (of clothing, furnishings, etc.) suitable for a plantation or for a tropical or semitropical country.
Plantation
2[ plan-tey-shuhn ]
noun
- a town in S Florida.
plantation
/ ±è±ôæ²Ôˈ³Ù±ðɪʃə²Ô /
noun
- an estate, esp in tropical countries, where cash crops such as rubber, oil palm, etc, are grown on a large scale
- a group of cultivated trees or plants
- (formerly) a colony or group of settlers
- rare.the planting of seeds, shoots, etc
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of plantation1
Example Sentences
The Confederacy convinced millions of poor white men — most of whom never owned slaves — that they had to fight and die for the interests of the plantation elite.
She was inspired after seeing a portrait of Sir Henry Morgan in Llanrumney Hall, the man who set up the Llanrumney sugar plantation in 18th Century Jamaica.
Thinkers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt addressed this question decades ago, noting that the erosion of privacy is a hallmark of exploitative systems — such as plantation slavery, totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany and patriarchy.
In the mid-20th Century, Belgian colonialists brought workers over from present-day Rwanda to staff their plantations, while others came on their own accord in search of a better life.
This third piece, Lyons acknowledges, is a bigger swing: The time-traveling buddy comedy follows two friends who, after smoking a uniquely potent blunt, get transported back to an active plantation.
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