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plantation

noun

plan-ˈtā-shən

Definition of plantation

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a settlement in a new country or region the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter

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Recent Examples of plantation My mother had a 4th grade education and worked on a sharecropping tobacco plantation. — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2026 Initial rumors were fueled by local innuendo and supported by records aligning Hemings’ pregnancies with Jefferson’s presence at his plantation home of Monticello in Virginia. — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026 Nobody complained when Pitt received the part of Louis de Pointe du Lac, a wealthy plantation owner in the late 18th century whom Lestat would eventually sire after Louis is consumed by grief over the death of his wife and child. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026 Cora, the granddaughter of a woman kidnapped from West Africa and sold into slavery, flees her captor’s plantation, plunging her into the book’s alternate steampunk reality where she is pursued by the merciless slave catcher Ridgeway. — David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for plantation

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Under the terms of the Tripartite Convention of 1899, the United States claimed eastern Samoa (now American Samoa), while Germany made a colony of the western part of the islands (now the independent country of Samoa).

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
The wood is dark, evocative of the traditional First Period architecture of the early colonies.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

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