Thesaurus results for PLANTATIONS

plantations

noun

plural of plantation

as in colonies

a settlement in a new country or region the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter

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Recent Examples of plantations The trees are the legacy of coconut plantations established more than a century ago. — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026 Among those rescued were a female orangutan known as Mama Man and her infant, Man, who had been monitored for months in a small forest patch surrounded by plantations. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 Scholarly writing about slavery in the Americas—which has mostly centered on Black enslavement—has emphasized its economic value in building plantations, wealth, and American capitalism. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026 Humans are usually the ones who set off this bomb, through activities such as burning land to prepare it for agriculture and plantations. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026 Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026 Many let their plantations fall victim to rot; others abandoned cocoa farming altogether. — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2026 Even though public schooling became compulsory in 1896, the language barrier and the remote location of many plantations led to gaps in access to these laborers’ formal education. — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 21 Aug. 2026 The calls for supernatural aid often consisted of individuals’ attempts to protect themselves and strike back against slave owners under the extreme inequities and traumas of the plantations. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026

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colonies

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Coral reefs near seabird colonies are generally healthier, thanks to the nutrients that birds deposit in their guano.

— Lauren Sommer, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026
In 1867, the British government united its North American colonies to form the Canadian Confederation, in part to deter Washington from invading Canada in retaliation for London’s assistance to the Confederacy during the Civil War.

— Robert B. Zoellick, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2026

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