\Plan*ta"tion\, n. [L. plantatio: cf. F. plantation.]
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.
                                               --B. Trumbull.