plantation

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
  2. noun a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)
  3. noun garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantātiō (“planting, transplanting”), from plantātus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of plantāre, + action noun suffix -tiō.

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