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- Dictionaryplantation/plɑːnˈteɪʃn/
noun
- 1. an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown.
- 2. colonization or settlement of emigrants, especially of English and then Scottish families in Ireland in the 16th–17th centuries under government sponsorship: "the Plantation of Ulster"
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The meaning of PLANTATION is a usually large group of plants and especially trees under cultivation. How to use plantation in a sentence.
a large farm, especially in a hot part of the world, on which a particular type of crop is grown: a tea / cotton / rubber plantation. an area where trees are grown for wood: plantations of fast-growing conifers. Charcrit Boonsom/robertharding/GettyImages. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Farms & ranches.
Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees.
a large farm, especially in a hot part of the world, on which a particular type of crop is grown: a tea / cotton / rubber plantation. an area where trees are grown for wood: plantations of fast-growing conifers.
A plantation is a large piece of land, especially in a tropical country, where crops such as rubber, coffee, tea, or sugar are grown.
a large area of land that is planted with trees to produce wood. Most of these conifer plantations will be felled over the next 10 years. Definition of plantation noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
What does the noun plantation mean? There are 13 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun plantation, three of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. plantation has developed meanings and uses in subjects including.
