Dictionary Entry
plantation
plantation is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
- 4noun
garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
- 5noun
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"
- 6noun
an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
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