plat
noun
a plot of ground.
plat
1 American
[plat]
/ plæt /
noun
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a plot of ground.
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a plan or map, as of land.
verb (used with object)
platted,
platting
plat
2
American
[plat]
/ plæt /
noun
verb (used with object)
platted,
platting
plat-
3
American
plat.
4
American
abbreviation
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plateau.
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platoon.
plat
1
British
/ plæt /
noun
plat
2
British
/ plæt /
noun
Etymology
Origin of plat1
1400–50; late Middle English; variant of plot, reinforced by Middle English plat flat of a sword < Old French: something flat ( see plate 1)
Origin of plat2
1350–1400; Middle English; variant of plait
Example Sentences
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The homeless are served entrée, plat, dessert, plus a cheese course and wine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Local governments can delegate the final plat approval to planning directors or other designated officials to save time, bringing greater efficiency to the permit process and reducing an unnecessary cost pressure on housing.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Nichols’ restrictions started with a few sentences on neighborhood plat documents and eventually ran for a few pages.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2023
Pope, bald, with a trimmed white beard, sat amid stacks of plat maps and paper diagrams of the canals, surrounded by LCD screens with spreadsheets marking volumes of water and their destinations.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2022
Security guards stand on a plat Enrique’s Journey form over the freight cars, watch for migrants, and pull them off before they cross the bridge.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
But it is not her own love of speechmaking and prominence which brings her so often to the plat- form.
From Time Magazine Archive
The plat- forms, the bastions, the terraces, the high-perched windows and balconies, the hanging gardens and dizzy crenellations, of this complicated structure, keep you in perpetual intercourse with an immense horizon.
From A Little Tour in France by James, Henry
We grasped each other's hands as we rose from the plat- form on which we had been lying, and mutual congratula- tions, mingled with gratitude, poured forth from our long silent lips.
From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Verne, Jules
The same ponderous wave laid me prostrate on the plat- form, and as my head came in collision with the corner of a spar, for a time I lost all consciousness.
From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Verne, Jules
Another plank in the plat- 458:9 form is this, that error will finally have the same effect as truth.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
Some were “dream towns” imagined by real estate developers, planned and platted and sold, but never born.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
The policies effectively platted South Los Angeles as a zone of enduring inequity for subsequent waves of immigrants, whether from Louisiana, Mexico or El Salvador.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
Together, they platted Centralia and established Centralia’s public square, first church and cemetery.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2020
Most of Dansville hadn’t been platted, meaning there was no legal map showing divisions of the land.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2018
The village was surveyed and platted March 24, 1886; Chas.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
In 1907, they passed a bill authorizing the platting and selling of shoreland around Lake Union and Lake Washington.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
It’s really, really impressive — the platting of all those strands.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2019
The borough’s platting board in January denied the Citizens Way name, but the idea was resurrected by the borough’s planning commission this month.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2016
SAT Stories of Fremont’s history, culture and people and celebrate the 140th anniversary of the first property platting in Fremont, 2 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2015
A great deal of it has been well harvested; and I have the pleasure to know that several hundreds of persons are now employed in the platting of straw.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William
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