plantation

«plantation» in Mova's school dictionary: a large farm, usually in a hot country, where one crop… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a plantation, plantations)

meaning for a pupil

1) A plantation is a large farm, usually in a hot country, where one crop such as cotton, sugar, tea, coffee or rubber is grown. tree →

2) A plantation is also an area where many trees have been planted in rows, for example for wood. tree →

3) (history) In the past, many plantations in the Americas used enslaved African people who were forced to work without pay. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, plantations are linked to the slave trade and to the American Civil War; this is taught as a serious wrong. In geography, tea plantations in India or Sri Lanka and palm oil plantations show how farming changes land and forests. In Ireland, «the Plantation of Ulster» was when land was taken and given to settlers from Britain.

examples

• Tea is grown on huge plantations on green hillsides. tree →
• Enslaved people were forced to pick cotton on plantations. tree →
• The pine plantation had trees in straight rows. tree →
• Cutting forests for palm oil plantations harms orangutans. tree →
• We read a story about a girl who escaped from a plantation. tree →
• Workers on the coffee plantation pick the beans by hand. tree →
• When she was gone, no one attended to her plantations, and the garden ran to waste. tree →

note

Countable. Stress on «-TAY-». A plantation grows one main crop on a large scale; a «farm» can be any size and grow many things. A word with a painful history: speak about it carefully and truthfully.

In the corpora

• Much of the forest has been cleared for palm oil and paper plantations, so many of these animals are now very rare.
• Palm oil is in many foods and soaps, so choosing products from better-run plantations can help the forest.
• Sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked mainly by enslaved Africans, in brutal conditions where many died young.
• These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and hedges; there they dwelt occupied in the king's work.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «plantation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.