plantation

English

Etymology

Latin plantatio, from perfect passive participle plantatus (“planted”), from verb plantare, + noun of action suffix -tio

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

Wikipedia plantation (plural plantations)

1. Large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
2. The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Caribbean.

Related terms

• plant
• (importation of people to displace local persons): planter

Translations

large farm

Arabic: مزرعة (ar) (mazra3a) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 種植園 (cmn), 种植园 (cmn) (zhòngzhíyuán) Czech: plantáž (cs) f. Dutch: aanplanting (nl) f., plantage (nl) f. Esperanto: plantaro (eo), plantejo (eo) Finnish: plantaasi (fi), suurtila (fi) French: plantation (fr) f. German: Plantage (de) f. Greek: φυτεία (el) f. Hungarian: ültetvény (hu)

Ido: plantacerio (io) Interlingua: plantation (ia) Italian: piantagione (it) f. Japanese: プランテーション (ja) (purantēshon) Korean: 재배지 (ko) (jaebaeji) Latin: plantatio (la) f. Polish: plantacja (pl) f. Portuguese: plantação (pt) f. Russian: плантация (ru) (plantácija) f. Slovak: plantáž (sk) f. Spanish: plantación (es) f.

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Interlingua

Etymology

Wikipedia

Interlingua-English Dictionary plantation, from perfect passive participle plantate (“planted”), from verb plantar, + noun of action suffix -ion

Noun

plantation (plural plantationes)

1. Large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.

Related terms

• planta
• plantar