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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plantation \Plan*ta"tion\, n. [L. plantatio: cf F. plantation.]
1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth
for growth. [R.]
2. 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.
3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.
--B. Trumbull.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
plantation
n : an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale
(especially in tropical areas)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Plantation, FL (CDP, FIPS 57440)
Location: 27.06788 N, 82.37315 W
Population (1990): 1885 (1617 housing units)
Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Plantation, FL (city, FIPS 57425)
Location: 26.12550 N, 80.26161 W
Population (1990): 66692 (29399 housing units)
Area: 56.3 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 33317, 33324
Plantation, KY (city, FIPS 61554)
Location: 38.28310 N, 85.59401 W
Population (1990): 830 (328 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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