PLANTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Plantation mean? 

• PLANTATION (noun)
  The noun PLANTATION has 3 senses:

1. an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)

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

3. garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

  Familiarity information: PLANTATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("plantation" is a kind of...):

acres; demesne; estate; land; landed estate (extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plantation"):

orangery (a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century

Hypernyms ("Plantation" is a kind of...):

colony; settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)

Domain region:

North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

grove; orchard; plantation; woodlet

Hypernyms ("plantation" is a kind of...):

garden (a plot of ground where plants are cultivated)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plantation"):

apple orchard (a grove of apple trees)

lemon grove (a grove of lemon trees)

orange grove (grove of orange trees)

peach orchard (a grove of peach trees)

 Context examples 

If it had not been for that, we should have carried on the garden wall, and made the plantation to shut out the churchyard, just as Dr.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then, with a slight bow, turned again into the plantation, and was soon out of sight.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

An outbreak of the disease upon his plantation, which was distant from medical aid, caused him to study it himself, with some rather far-reaching consequences.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Did he know the head-luna of the plantation?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This year it was to be a plantation of sun flowers, the seeds of which cheerful and aspiring plant were to feed Aunt Cockle-top and her family of chicks.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Such an immense plantation all round it!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

To the left is Barton park, amongst those woods and plantations.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Holmes seemed to know the grounds perfectly, and he threaded his way swiftly among a plantation of small trees, I close at his heels, and our foremost pursuer panting behind us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The slides were slowed or halted by the coconut palm plantations.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)