plantation

Meaning

Noun

• A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
• An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
• The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
• A colony established thus.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantātiō ("planting, transplanting"), from plantātus, the perfect passive participle of planto, + action noun suffix -tiō.