Meaning & use
plantation
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Meanings
nouncountable
A large farm in a warm region where a single crop such as tea, coffee, sugar or rubber is grown for sale.
Grammar: Often named after its crop: a tea plantation.
Patterns
- a plantation in somewhere
He worked on a banana plantation in Ecuador.
The tea plantation covers the entire hillside.
They toured a coffee plantation on the island.
nouncountableAmerican
In the American South before the Civil War, a large estate worked by enslaved people.
Grammar: A historical term; handle with care.
Patterns
- a plantation owner
Historians study life on the cotton plantation through diaries and records.
Many museums now tell the stories of enslaved people on the old plantation.
The plantation house is now open to visitors with an honest account of its past.
nouncountabletechnical
An area of land planted with trees to be cut for timber.
Grammar: Chiefly forestry.
Patterns
- a pine plantation
The pine plantation will be harvested in thirty years.
A new plantation was planted on the hill.
Birds are scarce in a dense spruce plantation.
Word forms
| plural | plantations |
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Common combinations
- a rubber plantation
- A rubber plantation stretched along the river.
- a sugar plantation
- Workers on the sugar plantation lived in nearby villages.
- a plantation owner
- The plantation owner lived far from the fields.
- a coffee plantation
- The coffee plantation sits high in the mountains.
- a forestry plantation
- A forestry plantation supplies timber to the mill.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
Commonly confused: plantation or planetation?
plantation vs planetation
This is not a word; plantation comes from plant, not planet.
Practice
Rows of tea bushes covered every hill of the sprawling ___.
Choose one answer.
A plantation is a large farm for a crop like tea; plantain is a fruit and the other words are unrelated.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “plantation”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.