plantation
A very large farm, usually in a warm country, that grows one main crop like sugar, cotton, or coffee, often with many workers living and working there.
A large farm or estate, especially in tropical or subtropical regions, where a single main crop such as sugar, cotton, or coffee is grown, often historically using resident or forced labor.
A large area where people plant many trees of the same kind in rows so they can cut and use them for wood, paper, oil, or other products.
An area of land where many trees of one or a few selected species are planted and managed for commercial purposes, such as timber, paper, or palm oil production.
An old word for a group of people from one country who were sent to live and build a town in another land that their country controlled.
A settlement established by a colonizing power in a foreign territory, especially in early modern history, often involving the controlled movement of settlers onto land taken from existing populations.
An old formal word for the act of putting plants, trees, or even groups of people into a new place in a planned way.
The act of planting or establishing something, especially the organized settlement of people or the planting of crops in a new area, used mainly in historical or formal texts.
- Base: plantation
- Plural: plantations
banana plantation
1large farm for bananas
A very big farm that grows many banana plants for sale.
- They drove past endless banana plantations on the way to the coast.
- The storm destroyed large parts of the banana plantation.
coffee plantation
1large farm for coffee
A large farm that grows coffee plants to sell coffee beans.
- They visited a coffee plantation in Colombia and learned how beans are processed.
- Many small farmers now sell their beans to larger coffee plantations.
cotton plantation
1large farm for cotton
A very large farm that grows cotton, especially in the southern United States in the past.
- The film shows life on a cotton plantation before the American Civil War.
- Many cotton plantations depended on the labor of enslaved people.
palm oil plantation
1large farm for oil palm trees
A large area of land with many oil palm trees grown to make palm oil.
- Forests have been cleared to create palm oil plantations.
- The documentary focuses on working conditions in palm oil plantations.
plantation economy
1economy based on plantations
An economy where most money comes from big farms that grow one or two crops to sell to other countries.
- The island developed a plantation economy focused on sugar exports.
- A plantation economy often leads to strong dependence on world market prices.
plantation owner
1person who owns a plantation
A person who owns a large farm called a plantation.
- The plantation owner lived in a large house overlooking the fields.
- Many plantation owners became very rich from slave labor.
plantation slavery
1system of slavery on plantations
A system in history where people were kept as slaves and forced to work on large farms called plantations.
- Plantation slavery shaped the social and economic history of the Americas.
- The exhibit explores the daily lives of people under plantation slavery.
rice plantation
1large farm for rice
A big farm with many wet fields where rice is grown.
- Historic rice plantations can still be found along the river.
- Rice plantations required complex systems of irrigation and labor.
rubber plantation
1large farm for rubber trees
A large farm with many rubber trees that are cut to get liquid to make rubber.
- The company expanded its rubber plantations into formerly forested areas.
- Many people in the region depend on work in rubber plantations.
sugar plantation
1large farm for sugarcane
A very large farm that grows sugarcane to make sugar, usually in a warm country.
- Thousands of enslaved Africans were forced to work on sugar plantations in the Caribbean.
- The museum is located on the grounds of a former sugar plantation.
tea plantation
1large farm for tea
A large area of land, often on hills, where many tea bushes are grown for sale.
- The hills were covered with green tea plantations.
- She worked as a picker on a tea plantation in Sri Lanka.
tree plantation
1area of planted trees
A large area where people plant many trees in rows to use them later for wood or other products.
- The government is investing in new tree plantations to supply timber.
- Some conservationists argue that tree plantations cannot replace natural forests.