plantation

Other forms of plantation

plural

plantations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plantation

What does plantation mean?

plantation means "an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plantation?

plantation has 3 syllables: plan-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌplænˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for plantation?

Close synonyms include grove, woodlet, orchard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plantation a common word?

plantation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with plantation?

89 words rhyme with plantation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.