What is another word for plantation?

Pronunciation: [plantˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Plantation is a term related to agriculture and refers to a large farm or estate which is primarily used for cultivating crops such as tobacco, coffee, and sugar. Other synonyms for plantation could be agricultural estate, farmstead, farmland, garden, orchard, and vineyard. The word plantation is also commonly associated with slavery in the United States, where enslaved people were forced to work long hours picking cotton, tobacco, and sugarcane. Another synonym for plantation in this context could be a slave farm. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the term plantation can still be used today to describe an agricultural property, but without the connotation of labor exploitation.

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Usage examples for Plantation

"From my own plantation," he said to Captain Franklin, with rather a pompous manner.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
It took us two days to get there; but we halted for the night at a plantation, where we were received with the utmost hospitality.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
Though area farmers maintain that their hired laborers were liked and respected-"as much a part of the neighborhood as anyone else"-in conversation capable workers were referred to as "boy" or by the old plantation epithets of "Aunt" and "Uncle."
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Famous quotes with Plantation

  • My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
    Julie Christie
  • I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
    Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
    Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
    Kamisese Mara
  • If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.
    Charles E. Merrill

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