Plantation,

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
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     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.
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     3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
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              While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.
                                                    --B. Trumbull.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  plantation
       n 1: an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale
            (especially in tropical areas)
       2: 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"
       3: garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without
          undergrowth [syn: {grove}, {woodlet}, {orchard}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "plantation":
     anchorage, arable land, barnyard, barton, cattle ranch,
     chicken farm, clump, collective farm, colonization,
     cotton plantation, croft, crop, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm,
     dry farm, dude ranch, empeoplement, establishment, factory farm,
     fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead,
     farmyard, fixation, foundation, fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm,
     grange, grassland, growth, hacienda, hassock, homecroft, homefarm,
     homestead, inauguration, inhabiting, initiation, installation,
     installment, investiture, kibbutz, kolkhoz, location, lodgment,
     mains, manor farm, mooring, orchard, pasture, pen, peoplement,
     peopling, planting, population, poultry farm, ranch, rancheria,
     rancho, settlement, settling, sheep farm, stand, station, steading,
     stock farm, toft, truck farm, tuft, tussock
  
  

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)

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Plantation, FL -- U.S. city in Florida
     Population (2000):    82934
     Housing Units (2000): 34999
     Land area (2000):     21.737874 sq. miles (56.300832 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.193331 sq. miles (0.500726 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    21.931205 sq. miles (56.801558 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            57425
     Located within:       Florida (FL), FIPS 12
     Location:             26.124354 N, 80.249503 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     33317 33324
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Plantation, FL
      Plantation
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Plantation, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
     Population (2000):    4168
     Housing Units (2000): 2837
     Land area (2000):     2.447822 sq. miles (6.339829 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.003509 sq. miles (0.009087 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    2.451331 sq. miles (6.348916 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            57450
     Located within:       Florida (FL), FIPS 12
     Location:             27.063568 N, 82.370146 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     33317 33324
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Plantation, FL
      Plantation
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Plantation, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
     Population (2000):    902
     Housing Units (2000): 375
     Land area (2000):     0.201770 sq. miles (0.522582 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.201770 sq. miles (0.522582 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            61554
     Located within:       Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
     Location:             38.283420 N, 85.591635 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Plantation, KY
      Plantation