Definition of: plantation

(plan·tā′shən) noun
1. Any place that is planted; especially, a farm or estate of many acres in the southern United States planted in cotton, tobacco, rice, or sugarcane, and formerly worked by slave labor.
2. A colony.
3. An oyster bed or oyster farm.
4. A grove cultivated to provide a certain product.
5. The act of planting. [<L plantatio, -onis a planting <plantare plant]