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Definition of "planation" []

  • The process of erosion and deposition in which a nearly level surface is produced, as by streams, wind, or ocean currents. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "planation" in a sentence
  • "Every planation in the South that "owned" slaves was a concentration camp."
  • "But now the "massas" in the DNC want to put us back on the planation (back to ominous music, unflattering pictures of Hillary Clinton)."
  • "But that memory has suppressed the suffering caused by the Civil War and promoted the mythological life of antebellum planation owners."