Plantation

/plænˈteɪʃən/
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Other forms: Plantations

Definitions of Plantation
  1. noun
    a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)
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    type of:
    colony, settlement
    a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
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