Plantation

Noun

 * 1) Large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
 * 2) The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Caribbean.

Related terms

 * plant
 * planter

Adjectives for Plantation
flourishing; tidewater; well-managed; substantial-looking; communal; artistic; superabundant; rich.

Thesaurus
anchorage, arable land, barnyard, barton, cattle ranch, chicken farm, clump, collective farm, colonization, cotton plantation, croft, crop, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm, dry farm, dude ranch, empeoplement, establishment, factory farm, fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fixation, foundation, fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm, grange, grassland, growth, hacienda, hassock, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, inauguration, inhabiting, initiation, installation, installment, investiture, kibbutz, kolkhoz, location, lodgment, mains, manor farm, mooring, orchard, pasture, pen, peoplement, peopling, planting, population, poultry farm, ranch, rancheria, rancho, settlement, settling, sheep farm, stand, station, steading, stock farm, toft, truck farm, tuft, tussock

Etymology
Latin plantatio, from perfect passive participle plantatus:, from verb plantare, + noun of action suffix -tio

Translations

 * Arabic: مزرعة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 種植園, 种植园
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:, suurtila
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ültetvény


 * Ido:
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: プランテーション
 * Korean: 재배지
 * Latin: plantatio
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 * Slovak:
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Noun

 * 1) Large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.

Etymology
Interlingua-English Dictionary plantation, from perfect passive participle plantate:, from verb plantar, + noun of action suffix -ion

Related terms

 * planta
 * plantar