different between plantation vs nursery

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French plantation, from Latin plant?ti? (“planting, transplanting”), from plant?tus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of plant?re, + action noun suffix -ti?.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /plæn?te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

plantation (countable and uncountable, plural plantations)

1. A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
2. An area where trees are planted for commercial purposes.
3. The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
4. A colony established thus.

Related terms

• plant
• (importation of people to displace local persons): planter

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plantatio, plantationem.

Pronunciation

Noun

plantation f (plural plantations)

1. planting
2. plantation

Related terms

• planter

Interlingua

Etymology

From the Interlingua-English Dictionary.

From English plantation, from Middle French plantation, from Latin plant?ti? (“planting, transplanting”), from plant?tus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of plant?re, + action noun suffix -ti?.

Noun

plantation (plural plantationes)

1. Large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.

Related terms

• planta
• plantar

English

Etymology

From Middle English noricerie, norserye (“children's nursery; state of being fostered or nursed; education, upbringing”) [and other forms], from Old French norricerie, nourricerie, from norrice, nourrice (modern French nourrice (“childminder, nanny; wet nurse”)) + -erie (suffix forming feminine nouns). Norrice and nourrice are derived from Late Latin n?tr?cia (“wet nurse”), from Latin n?tr?cius (“that nurses or suckles; nourishing”), from n?tri? (“to breastfeed, nurse, suckle”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh?- (“to flow”). The English word may be analysed as nourice, nurse +? -ery (suffix forming nouns meaning ‘place of’).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n??s??i/, /?n??s?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?s??i/, /?n?s?i/
• Hyphenation: nurs?e?ry

Noun

nursery (countable and uncountable, plural nurseries)

1. (countable) A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
   1. (by extension) Especially in European countries: a room or area in a household set apart for the care of children.
   2. A place where the pre-school children of working parents are supervised during the day; a crèche, a daycare centre.
   3. A nursery school (“a school where pre-school children learn and play at the same time”).
   4. (Philippines) The first year of pre-school.
2. (countable, also figuratively) A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
   1. (agriculture, zoology) A place where animals breed, or where young animals are naturally or artificially reared (for example, on a farm).
   2. (horticulture) A place where young shrubs, trees, vines, etc., are cultivated for transplanting, or (more generally) made available for public sale, a garden centre; also (obsolete) a plantation of young trees.
   3. (sports) A club or team for developing the skills of young players.
3. (countable) Something which educates and nurtures.
4. (countable, billiards) Short for nursery cannon (“a carom shot involving balls that are very close together”).
5. (countable, obsolete, rare) Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.
6. (uncountable, obsolete) The act of nursing or rearing.

Derived terms

Related terms

• nurse

Translations

Notes

References

Further reading

• nursery (room) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nursery habitat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nursery school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• plant nursery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nursery (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English nursery.

Noun

nursery f (invariable)

1. nursery (place for the care of children)