Definition of Plantation

Plantation

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.

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Plantation Quotations

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
Julie Christie

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
John Woolman

I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
Kamisese Mara

If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.
Charles E. Merrill

We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there.
William Bell

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Plantation Translations

plantation in Afrikaans is plantasie
plantation in Dutch is kwekerij, plantage
plantation in German is Pflanzung
plantation in Swedish is plantering, plantage, koloni

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