plantation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: plantation	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for plantation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
plantation n an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America); "the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century" garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth Synonym(s): grove, woodlet, orchard, plantation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plantation \Plan*ta"tion\, n. [L. plantatio: cf. F. plantation.] 1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. [R.] 2. The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation. 3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony. While these plantations were forming in Connecticut. --B. Trumbull.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Plantation, FL (CDP, FIPS 57440) Location: 27.06788 N, 82.37315 W Population (1990): 1885 (1617 housing units) Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Plantation, FL (city, FIPS 57425) Location: 26.12550 N, 80.26161 W Population (1990): 66692 (29399 housing units) Area: 56.3 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 33317, 33324 Plantation, KY (city, FIPS 61554) Location: 38.28310 N, 85.59401 W Population (1990): 830 (328 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)