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plan⋅ta⋅tion

[plan-tey-shuhn]
–noun
1. a usually large farm or estate, esp. in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers.
2. a group of planted trees or plants.
3. History/Historical.
a. a colony or new settlement.
b. the establishment of a colony or new settlement.
4. Archaic. the planting of seeds, young trees, etc.
–adjective
5. (of clothing, furnishings, etc.) suitable for a plantation or for a tropical or semitropical country.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME plantacioune < L plantātiōn- (s. of plantātiō) a planting. See plant ( v. ), -ation


plan⋅ta⋅tion⋅like, adjective

Plan⋅ta⋅tion

[plan-tey-shuhn]
–noun
a town in S Florida. 48,501.
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plan·ta·tion   (plān-tā'shən)   
n.  
  1. An area under cultivation.

  2. A group of cultivated trees or plants.

  3. A large estate or farm on which crops are raised, often by resident workers.

  4. A newly established settlement; a colony.

Plan·ta·tion   (plān-tā'shən)   
A city of southeast Florida, a residential suburb of Fort Lauderdale. Population: 85,900.
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Word Origin & History

plantation 
c.1450, "action of planting," from M.Fr. plantation, from L. plantationem (nom. plantatio) "a planting," from plantare "to plant" (see plant). Historically used for "colony, settlement in a new land" (1614); meaning "large farm on which tobacco or cotton is grown" is first recorded 1706.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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