plan.ˈtāshən, plaan-, plȧn-, in southern US “or -nt.ˈā- noun
( -s )
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Latin plantation-, plantatio, from plantatus (past. participle of plantare to plant) + -ion-, -io -ion
1.
a. archaic : the act or process of planting
b. : something that is planted
plant the seeds of the harvest you want to reap in cleared, plowed soil and protect the plantation while it grows — Lincoln Steffens
2.
a. : a usually large group of plants under cultivation
a plantation of nodding purple and ivory-colored lilacs — New Yorker
b. : grove
screened from the converging roads by a plantation of copper beeches — Osbert Lancaster
c. : a cultivated oyster bed
3.
a. : the settlement of people in a particular region : colonization
forced plantations of English settlers — Seamus MacCall
b. : the founding or establishing of something : implantation
4.
a. sometimes capitalized : a settlement in a new country or region : colony
a vessel from the overseas plantations — Leslie Thomas
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
b. : a minor division of local government in Maine
5.
a. : a place that is planted : cultivated land
the man creates the plantation by cutting down the trees of the forest, the woman turns the soil — J.G.Frazer
b. : a usually large estate in a tropical or subtropical region that is generally cultivated by unskilled or semiskilled labor under central direction
rich cotton land, cultivated in large plantations — American Guide Series: Arkansas
6. : a moderate reddish brown that is lighter, stronger, and much yellower than roan and yellower, lighter, and stronger than mahogany