1 an estate on which cotton, tobacco, etc. is cultivated, esp. in former colonies, formerly by slave labour.
2 an area planted with trees etc.
3 hist. a colony; colonization.
Phrases and idioms:
plantation song a song of the kind formerly sung by Blacks on American plantations.
Etymology: ME f. OF plantation or L plantatio (as PLANT)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.