| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. 2. (n.) 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. (n.) An original settlement in a new country; a colony. | Multi-Version Concordance Plantation (3 Occurrences) Ezekiel 17:7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS) Ezekiel 31:4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field. (WEB JPS ASV DBY) Ezekiel 34:29 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more. (WEB JPS ASV RSV) |