Plantation /(?)/

Plan·ta·tion

Plantation

n.
  1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. [R.]
  2. The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.
  3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
    While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.