plantation.

1. A large agricultural property organized for commercial crops, often one principal crop.

2. An area of deliberately planted trees, often for forestry.

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Words that belong together

• a sugar plantation
• a tea plantation

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The plantation’s layout separated the owner’s house from the workers’ quarters.

She described the sugar plantation through labor records as well as acreage.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Singular plantation; plural plantations. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.