plantation
/plænˈteɪʃən/ noun C1- A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
- An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
- The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
- A colony established thus. · Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (former official name of Rhode Island, United States)
Plural plantations
From the library
Will you do me the honour of reading that letter?” and then, with a slight bow, turned again into the plantation, and was soon out of sight.
It must be those wretched gipsies in the plantation.’
“Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?”
“Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation.
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