PLANTATION

plantation. Plantation, n. a place that is planted, a colony, a cultivated estate or farm

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Plan‐ta″tion (?), n. [[L. plantatio: cf. F. plantation.]] 1. 1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
2. 2. 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.
3. 3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
While these plantations were forming in Connecticut. B. Trumbull.