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Meaning of 'plantation' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Plantation [ n.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'plantation' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . plantation [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)
Example in sentence:
  • the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century

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