plantation

noun

plan-ˈtā-shən How to pronounce plantation (audio)
Definition of plantationnext
as in colony
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 About 12 million Africans were forcefully taken by traders from European nations from the 16th to the 19th century and enslaved on plantations that built wealth at the price of misery. — ABC News, 19 June 2026 Georgia is the background for this Civil War and Reconstruction-era tale that follows Scarlett's fight to save her wealthy family's plantation, offering a romanticized perspective of slavery and plantation life. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 25 June 2026 One of the historical laws Hawaii pointed to was an 1865 Louisiana statute, adopted after the Civil War, to prevent anyone from carrying a gun onto a plantation without the landowner’s permission. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 26 June 2026 Mignon Armistead Dunn was born in Memphis on June 17, 1928, and moved with her family to a cotton plantation at Tyronza in Poinsett County at an early age, David Sesser wrote for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for plantation
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colony
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  • At the time, the colonies were still under British rule, making the creation of a national flag a potentially dangerous act.
    — Pete Cuddihy, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
  • Enjoying a meal that might have been served in the colonies hundreds of years ago.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 4 July 2026
Definition of colony

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