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
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
Feast on the plat du jour during lunch and charcuterie boards for dinner while sampling bottles of poulsard.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
There was a sheet iron stove in the center of a wooden frame filled with sand, and a faded map on the wall and the dingy plat of a township.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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 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 Jules Verne
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 Mary Baker Eddy
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 Henry James
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 Jules Verne
It’s sort of sleepy at the moment, like a city that has been platted but not fully built, with a lot of open space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
A document shows the couple had a block surveyed and platted in December 1889 as “Conna’s Addition,” donating “all the highways” for permanent public use.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 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
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 platted in 1883, but a post office had been established the year before, C. H. Clapperton being the first postmaster.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
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 county finished platting, aside from a portion in the northwest corner, paving the way for housing.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2018
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
Annie Bermond sat alone upon the hill, musingly platting the long grass together, but she heeded not the work of her fingers.
From Friends and Neighbors by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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