plantation owner
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3.9
- noun
- /plænˈteɪʃən ˈoʊnər/
:
dueño de plantación
- Our next story, one you won't find in Howard Zinn, is set in South Carolina, where we encounter one of the most feared plantation owners in the South.
Examples
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He was a plantation owner.
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The special interests of plantation owners took precedence over any West Virginia concerns.
Blog text (24) -
The first Black slave sold in America was bought by a Black plantation owner.
Blog text (25) -
Democrat president Andrew Johnson gave the land back to its former plantation owners.
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French plantation owners initiated the process of cutting and selling trees.
Academic text (2009) -
Fripp Island was so named for the plantation owner who claimed the island for himself.
Fiction book (1996) -
The company secured contracts with plantation owners and the government to supply rice and other Indian staples.
Academic text (2005) -
The son of a Maryland freed slave and a white plantation owner, Zachary joins the crew of the Ibis by passing as white.
Academic text (2018) -
Tabasco was the invention of Edmund McIhenny, a wealthy New Orleans banker and plantation owner who lost everything in the Civil War.
Academic text (1990) -
The plantation owner hired additional workers to help with the harvest of sugarcane.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who grows crops or raises animals on a farm
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2.5
A person who has land, often a large area in the countryside
30
3.5
A person who owns land or a building and is responsible for its care
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6.4
A person who owns or manages a large farm often growing crops like cotton
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8.5
A person who owns land or a building without a lease
2
4.1
A person who owns property like a farm or house
A person who owns a large farm or estate
A person who owns or manages a large South American ranch
How Wealthy
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3.9
30
3.5
898
1.0
- UK
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5.8
3
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'person who owns or manages a plantation' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'plantation' (a large agricultural estate) with 'owner' (one who possesses property). This noun–noun compounding follows standard English composition patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Plantation owner comes from the picture of a very large farm called a plantation, where the owner had the land, the big house, and many workers to grow crops like sugar or cotton. So, it means 'a person who owns or manages a large farm for crops'.