"plantation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /plænˈteɪʃən/ [US] Audio: en-us-plantation.ogg Forms: plantations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantātiō (“planting, transplanting”), from plantātus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of plantāre, + action noun suffix -tiō. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|plantation}} Middle French plantation, {{der|en|la|plantātiō||planting, transplanting}} Latin plantātiō (“planting, transplanting”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} plantation (countable and uncountable, plural plantations)
  1. A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (large farm): plantacion [masculine] (Albanian), مَزْرَعَة (mazraʕa) [feminine] (Arabic), պլանտացիա (plantacʻia) (Armenian), տնկադաշտ (tnkadašt) (Armenian), plantasiya (Azerbaijani), планта́цыя (plantácyja) [feminine] (Belarusian), плянта́цыя (pljantácyja) [Taraškievica, feminine] (Belarusian), планта́ция (plantácija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), စိုက်ခင်း (cuikhkang:) (Burmese), plantació [feminine] (Catalan), 種植園 (Chinese Mandarin), 种植园 (zhòngzhíyuán) (Chinese Mandarin), plantáž [feminine] (Czech), plantage [common-gender] (Danish), aanplanting [feminine] (Dutch), plantage [feminine] (Dutch), plantaro (Esperanto), plantejo (Esperanto), istandus (Estonian), viðarlund [feminine] (Faroese), suurtila (Finnish), plantation [feminine] (French), პლანტაცია (ṗlanṭacia) (Georgian), Plantage [feminine] (German), φυτεία (fyteía) [feminine] (Greek), बाग़ान (bāġān) (english: tea) [masculine] (Hindi), वृक्षारोपण (vŕkṣāropaṇ) [masculine] (Hindi), ültetvény (Hungarian), plantekra [feminine] (Icelandic), plantacerio (Ido), perkebunan (Indonesian), plantation (Interlingua), piantagione [feminine] (Italian), プランテーション (purantēshon) (Japanese), 農園 (nōen) (alt: のうえん) (Japanese), 栽培所 (saibaijo) (alt: さいばいじょ) (Japanese), плантация (plantasiä) (Kazakh), ចំការ (cɑmkaa) (Khmer), 재배지 (jaebaeji) (alt: 栽培地) (Korean), 플랜테이션 (peullaenteisyeon) (Korean), плантация (plantatsiya) (Kyrgyz), ໄຮ່ (hai) (Lao), plantatio [feminine] (Latin), plantācija [feminine] (Latvian), plantacija [feminine] (Lithuanian), планта́жа (plantáža) [feminine] (Macedonian), perladangan (Malay), plantasje [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), plantacja [feminine] (Polish), plantação [feminine] (Portuguese), fazenda [feminine] (Portuguese), plantație [feminine] (Romanian), plantare [feminine] (Romanian), планта́ция (plantácija) [feminine] (Russian), планта́жа [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), plantáža [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), plantáž [feminine] (Slovak), plantaža [feminine] (Slovene), plantación [feminine] (Spanish), pranasi (Sranan Tongo), shamba [class-5, class-6] (Swahili), plantage [common-gender] (Swedish), ไร่ (râi) (Thai), plantasyon (Turkish), планта́ція (plantácija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), plantatsiya (Uzbek), đồn điền (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-plantation-en-noun--LP6vK0k Categories (other): Terms with Czech translations Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 20 36 38 7 Disambiguation of 'large farm': 95 0 5 0
  2. An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Agriculture, Slavery Categories (place): Places Translations (area where trees are grown for commercial purposes): насажде́ние (nasaždénie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 植被 (zhíbèi) (Chinese Mandarin), viljelymetsä (Finnish), puuviljelmä (Finnish), puuplantaasi (Finnish), מַטָּע (matá) [masculine] (Hebrew), ültetvény (Hungarian), perkebunan (Indonesian), viridārium [neuter] (Latin), ladang (Malay), estet (Malay), urupuia (Maori), насажде́ние (nasaždénije) [neuter] (Russian)
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  3. (historical) The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization. Tags: countable, historical, uncountable Related terms (importation of people to displace local persons): planter Translations (importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population): kolonisaatio (Finnish)
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  4. (historical) A colony established thus. Tags: countable, historical, uncountable Translations (colony thus established): siirtokunta (Finnish), kolonia (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-plantation-en-noun-xcIF7cWB Disambiguation of 'colony thus established': 3 4 5 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: plantation acre, plantation nigger, Providence Plantations, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Related terms: plant

Inflected forms

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        {
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
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          "word": "istandus"
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          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "large farm",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "large farm",
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          "code": "de",
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        {
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          "lang": "Greek",
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          "sense": "large farm",
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          "word": "φυτεία"
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        {
          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "hi",
          "english": "tea",
          "lang": "Hindi",
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          "sense": "large farm",
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          "word": "बाग़ान"
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          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
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          "roman": "vŕkṣāropaṇ",
          "sense": "large farm",
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          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "large farm",
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          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "large farm",
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          "code": "io",
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          "sense": "large farm",
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "word": "perkebunan"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "purantēshon",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "word": "プランテーション"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "alt": "のうえん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nōen",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "word": "農園"
        },
        {
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          "alt": "さいばいじょ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "saibaijo",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "word": "栽培所"
        },
        {
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          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "plantasiä",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "word": "плантация"
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        {
          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "cɑmkaa",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "word": "ចំការ"
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          "alt": "栽培地",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "jaebaeji",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "word": "재배지"
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        {
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "peullaenteisyeon",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "word": "플랜테이션"
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          "code": "ky",
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          "roman": "plantatsiya",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "word": "плантация"
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          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "hai",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "word": "ໄຮ່"
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "plantatio"
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          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "plantācija"
        },
        {
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          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "plantacija"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "plantáža",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "планта́жа"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "word": "perladangan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "plantasje"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "plantacja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "plantação"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 0 5 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "large farm",
          "tags": [
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "plantácija",
      "sense": "large farm",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "планта́ція"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "large farm",
      "word": "plantatsiya"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "large farm",
      "word": "đồn điền"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nasaždénie",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "насажде́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhíbèi",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "word": "植被"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "word": "viljelymetsä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "word": "puuviljelmä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "word": "puuplantaasi"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "matá",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "מַטָּע"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "word": "ültetvény"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "word": "perkebunan"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "viridārium"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "word": "ladang"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "word": "estet"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "word": "urupuia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nasaždénije",
      "sense": "area where trees are grown for commercial purposes",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "насажде́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population",
      "word": "kolonisaatio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "colony thus established",
      "word": "siirtokunta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "colony thus established",
      "word": "kolonia"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Plantation (settlement or colony)",
    "plantation"
  ],
  "word": "plantation"
}

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