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plantation

1

[ plan-tey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. 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.
  2. a group of planted trees or plants.
  3. History/Historical.
    1. a colony or new settlement.
    2. the establishment of a colony or new settlement.
  4. Archaic. the planting of seeds, young trees, etc.


adjective

  1. (of clothing, furnishings, etc.) suitable for a plantation or for a tropical or semitropical country.

Plantation

2

[ plan-tey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. a town in S Florida.

plantation

/ ±è±ôæ²Ôˈ³Ù±ðɪʃə²Ô /

noun

  1. an estate, esp in tropical countries, where cash crops such as rubber, oil palm, etc, are grown on a large scale
  2. a group of cultivated trees or plants
  3. (formerly) a colony or group of settlers
  4. rare.
    the planting of seeds, shoots, etc
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of plantation1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English plantacioune, from Latin ±è±ô²¹²Ô³ÙÄå³Ù¾±Å²Ô- (stem of ±è±ô²¹²Ô³ÙÄå³Ù¾±Å ) “a plantingâ€; plant (verb), -ation
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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