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plantation

/plan-tey-shuhn/US // plænˈteɪ ʃən //UK // (plænˈteɪʃən) //

种植园,种植业,种植场,种植基地

Related Words

ranch牧场,农场,大牧场,庄园estate遗产,财产,庄园,房地产orchard果园,园子,庄园,果园里homestead农庄,自留地,宅基地,家园hacienda庄园,农庄,城堡,宾馆vineyard葡萄园,酒庄,葡萄園,葡萄树farmstead农庄,农场,农场主,农田

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large farm or estate in a tropical or semitropical zone, for the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugarcane, etc., typically by enslaved, unpaid, or low-wage resident laborers.
    • : a group of planted trees or plants.
    • : History/Historical. a colony or new settlement.the establishment of a colony or new settlement.
    • : Archaic. the planting of seeds, young trees, etc.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : suitable for a plantation or for a tropical or semitropical country.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounlarge farm
Forms: plantations
Synonyms
estate遗产,财产,庄园,房地产homestead农庄,自留地,宅基地,家园orchard果园,园子,庄园,果园里ranch牧场,农场,大牧场,庄园farmstead农庄,农场,农场主,农田hacienda庄园,农庄,城堡,宾馆vineyard葡萄园,酒庄,葡萄園,葡萄树

Examples

  • Though she labors on the plantation, her father secretly encourages her education and assures her she’ll be freed on her 18th birthday.

  • William has taken over those duties since his dad’s strokes and spends two nights a week at the plantation.

  • Nestlé, for one, has faced similar scrutiny over child labor on coffee plantations in Brazil where it sources some of its beans.

  • After the war ended, he headed to Mexico, where he tried to establish a “New Virginia Colony” that would have re-created a version of the South’s plantation slavery and society.

  • The film was based on Northup’s own 1853 memoir Twelve Years a Slave, which documented his treatment on the plantation and his eventual freedom and reunion with his family, as well as on input from historians and researchers.

  • Hamer married in 1944 and moved with her husband to Ruleville, Miss., where they were sharecroppers on a plantation.

  • A Colombian coffee plantation teaches a valuable lesson in the fight to keep a dreaded disease from wiping out our favorite brew.

  • After firing that off, he clumsily asked what a plantation mentality is.

  • “I think you have more of a plantation mentality than I do,” he said.

  • Located in northern California, the Plantation Farm Camp takes everything back to the basics.

  • At another time her affections were deeply engaged by a young gentleman who visited a lady on a neighboring plantation.

  • His chief duty on the sugar plantation is to keep the monkeys out of the cane.

  • The plantation is divided up into small farms and rented to different workmen.

  • Until a few months ago, the boy has lived on a sugar plantation owned by a rich Tagal planter.

  • She had herself embroidered them to look like a pair worn by the rich lady whose husband owned the plantation.

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