plantation
noun
[ plɑːnˈteɪʃ(ə)n ]
• an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown.
• colonization or settlement of emigrants, especially of English and then Scottish families in Ireland in the 16th–17th centuries under government sponsorship.
• "the Plantation of Ulster"
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting the action of planting seeds): from Latin plantatio(n- ), from the verb plantare ‘to plant’.
