plat
noun
a plot of ground.
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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
“It’s as if we plat in a different division.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
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 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
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
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
With mining partners, Smithers platted the town of Renton in 1875.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Some were “dream towns” imagined by real estate developers, planned and platted and sold, but never born.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
So up it went in 1889, a year after the community was platted.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2019
In 1829 he was one of a party which surveyed and platted the first town of Chicago, and superintended the first sale of town lots there.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
Shark said that SDCI, per land code, looks for alternative divisions of land to maximize tree retention while platting new lots for development.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 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
“How soon will you be platting your Sunflower Ranch into town lots for the new town that I hear is to be started down your way?”
From Winning the Wilderness by J. N. Marchand
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