planting
noun
plant·ing ˈplan-tiŋ 
: an area where plants are grown for commercial or decorative purposes
also : the plants grown in such an area
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web This exhibit features Dawoud Bey’s photographic series on the Underground Railroad; Rashid Johnson’s video version of the Hamptons; Amanda Williams’ planting of red tulips on the South Side to mark the history of redlining and more. 
Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022 It’s aimed at farmers, but page 38 has some planting dates for winter crops. oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2022 Obliterating asphalt and planting seeds would transform cities from car-centric to people-centric systems. WIRED, 10 Sep. 2022 The decision is aimed at keeping local prices low amid a below-average monsoon that curtailed rice planting. Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 8 Sep. 2022 This plant is a magnet for butterflies and hummingbirds and will bloom non-stop from planting until frost. Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2022 Now, here are three things to know about fall planting. Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2022 Coffee planting stops at 6,000 feet, though, due to Panamanian law; the remainder of Elida Estate is an ecological park within Volcán Barú National Park. Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022 Back then, winemakers mixed 20 to 30 different kinds of vines in any one vineyard and likely selected those that performed best—reaching peak ripeness at the end of the season—for further planting, Torres said. Ian Mount, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2022 See More
Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022 It’s aimed at farmers, but page 38 has some planting dates for winter crops. oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2022 Obliterating asphalt and planting seeds would transform cities from car-centric to people-centric systems. WIRED, 10 Sep. 2022 The decision is aimed at keeping local prices low amid a below-average monsoon that curtailed rice planting. Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 8 Sep. 2022 This plant is a magnet for butterflies and hummingbirds and will bloom non-stop from planting until frost. Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2022 Now, here are three things to know about fall planting. Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2022 Coffee planting stops at 6,000 feet, though, due to Panamanian law; the remainder of Elida Estate is an ecological park within Volcán Barú National Park. Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022 Back then, winemakers mixed 20 to 30 different kinds of vines in any one vineyard and likely selected those that performed best—reaching peak ripeness at the end of the season—for further planting, Torres said. Ian Mount, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1535, in the meaning defined above
planting
verb
1
as in seeding
to put or set into the ground to grow I'll plant the marigold seeds in the spring Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- seeding
- drilling
- transplanting
- sowing
- replanting
- putting in
- scattering
- potting
- bedding
- reseeding
- broadcasting
- overseeding
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- harvesting
- gathering
- reaping
2
as in establishing
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of soon the sect had planted churches across the breadth of the colony Synonyms & Similar Words
- establishing
- initiating
- founding
- creating
- pioneering
- launching
- introducing
- instituting
- constructing
- beginning
- inaugurating
- organizing
- innovating
- starting
- constituting
- developing
- inventing
- manufacturing
- originating
- producing
- devising
- concocting
- fathering
- authoring
- enlarging
- funding
- financing
- conceiving
- setting up
- expanding
- arranging
- fabricating
- contriving
- subsidizing
- systematizing
- reinstituting
- endowing
- making up
- reinitiating
- cooking (up)
- relaunching
- refounding
- thinking (up)
- systemizing
- putting up
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- closing (down)
- shutting (up)
- finishing
- abolishing
- nullifying
- stopping
- annihilating
- ending
- annulling
- halting
- terminating
- phasing out
- rounding (off or out)
- winding up
- wrapping up
3
as in breeding
to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set a profound respect for Mother Nature that had been planted by long experience with hurricanes Synonyms & Similar Words
- breeding
- sowing
- implanting
- rooting
- embedding
- lodging
- inseminating
- instilling
- inculcating
- infixing
- driving
- enrooting
- investing
- hammering
- inoculating
- pounding
- entrenching
- infusing
- steeping
- fixing
- imbuing
- intrenching
- imbedding
- ingraining
- suffusing
- engraining
- annexins
- annexion
- annexionist
- annexions
- annexive
- annexment
- annexments
- annexure
- annexures
- anni horribiles
- anni mirabiles
- annicut
- Annie Oakley
- annie oakleys
- annie over
- Anniellidae
- anniellidaes
- annihilable
- annihilate
- annihilated
- annihilates
- annihilating
- annihilation
- annihilation radiation
- annihilationism