Usually means: Large farm specializing in crops.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. plantation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Plantation, plantation: Merriam-Webster
  3. Plantation, plantation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Plantation, plantation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plantation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Plantation, plantation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Plantation, plantation: Wordnik
  8. plantation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. plantation: Wiktionary
  10. plantation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. plantation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. plantation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Plantation, plantation: Dictionary.com
  14. plantation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. plantation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Plantation (Maine), Plantation (disambiguation), Plantation (settlement or colony), Plantation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Plantation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. plantation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. Plantation: Rhymezone
  20. plantation, plantation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. plantation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. plantation: FreeDictionary.org
  23. plantation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Plantation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plantation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plantation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plantation: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. plantation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  2. PLANTATION: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY

(Note: See plantations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
noun:  An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
noun:  (historical) The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
noun:  (historical) A colony established thus.

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