🇬🇧🇪🇸 plantation - plantación : English Lesson
noun
Meaning of "plantation" ("plantación"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.
A plantation is a very big farm, usually in a warm or tropical place, where people grow one main kind of plant over a huge area. For example, there might be a tea plantation where almost everything you see is tea plants, or a banana plantation covered in rows and rows of banana trees. Plantations often have many workers and special machines to plant, care for, and harvest the crops.
From the airplane, the coffee plantation looked like someone had drawn straight green lines with a giant ruler.
At the cocoa plantation, my brother tried to hug every tree and whisper, “Become chocolate, my friend.”
On the tea plantation tour, Dad kept asking where they grow the biscuits to go with it.
At the banana plantation, the guide said, “Any questions?” and my cousin asked, “Where is the nearest monkey?”
In the cotton plantation, my little brother thought each fluffy cotton ball was a tiny cloud that got stuck on a stick.
At dawn she crossed the green plantation, the plantation rows stretched like a sea. Hands plucked shiny tea leaves from the nearest plantation slope, baskets full and sweat shining. A child laughed at the plantation gate, smelling warm tea, and the tired workers watched the sun lift the plantation into gold, then cheered.
🧑🎓 CEFR Level: C2 Proficient
This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.
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