Synonyms for plantation


Grammar : Noun
Spell : plan-tey-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : plænˈteɪ ʃən


Définition of plantation

Origin :
  • mid-15c., "action of planting," from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantationem (nominative plantatio) "a planting," noun of action from past participle stem of plantare "to plant" (see plant). Historically used for "colony, settlement in a new land" (1610s); meaning "large farm on which tobacco or cotton is grown" is first recorded 1706.
  • noun large farm
Example sentences :
  • What was to become of the slaves on this plantation now that the master was dead?
  • Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
  • I did not stop to put on my clothes until I had got two or three miles from the plantation.
  • Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
  • There was plenty to do on the plantation, and there was no good cause for sending me away.
  • Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
  • On going to them I found a resting-place in a fodder-loft, in the horse-lot of the plantation.
  • Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
  • This was my position on the plantation a short time after school was out for the term.
  • Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
  • I told him I belonged to a man by the name of Potts, and that I was going to his plantation.
  • Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
  • Get on him and ride out to my plantation, two miles from here; anybody'll tell you where it is.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • What was done in the parlor might be done with divine approbation on every plantation.
  • Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
  • When we met again I knew that he--while he did not know that I--had been to Gilmer's plantation.
  • Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable
  • I was continued in the inspection of this plantation, now become the King's in 1730, as before.
  • Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz

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