plantation Synonyms
Another word for plantation
• noun (Context 1)
A large agricultural estate, typically in a tropical or subtropical region, on which cash crops such as coffee, sugar, rubber, cotton, or tobacco are cultivated on an industrial scale.
"The region's economy once relied heavily on vast tea and coffee plantations situated along the fertile hillsides."
• noun (Context 2)
An area densely planted with trees or plants of a single type, typically cultivated for commercial timber or forestry conservation.
"The forestry service established a pine grove to restore the degraded watershed and supply sustainable timber."
• noun (Context 3)
Historically, a settlement or colony established in a new territory by a group of settlers, such as in 17th-century Ireland or North America.
"Early colonial charters referred to the coastal settlements in New England as plantations."