Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.

    Plantage

    планта́цияplantácija

    планта́ціяplantácija

  2. (countable, uncountable)An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.

    насажде́ниеnasaždénije

  3. (countable, historical, uncountable)The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.

  4. (countable, historical, uncountable)A colony established thus.

    Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (former official name of Rhode Island, United States)

    a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)

Examples

20 sentences
  1. Nothing remained of the sugarcane plantation.

  2. There was a sugarcane plantation in the area.

  3. Small children work as slaves on the chocolate plantation.

    ruМаленькие дети работают как рабы на шоколадной плантации. — odexed

    deKleine Kinder leisten auf der Schokoladenplantage Sklavenarbeit. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Small children work as slaves on the cocoa plantation.

  5. Algeria needs to develop huge plantations in the desert.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
large farm:
Русский
By meaning 2
large farm:
area where trees are grown for commercial purposes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
large farm:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantātiō (“planting, transplanting”),

Borrowed from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantātiō (“planting, transplanting”), from plantātus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of plantāre, + action noun suffix -tiō.

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Forms

plural: plantations
Singularplantation
Pluralplantations

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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