Plat

Quick meaning: Plat is a noun meaning A plot of land; a lot.

Meaning

A plot of land; a lot.

More Meanings

1. A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
2. (transitive) To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.
3. A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
4. Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
5. (obsolete) A plot, a scheme.
6. (dated except regional England) To braid, to plait.
7. (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.

Example Sentences

Such pleaſure took the Serpent to behold This Flourie Plat, the ſweet receſs of Eve Thus earlie, thus alone; [...]

O Blackbird! sing me something well: / While all the neighbours shoot thee round, / I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, / Where thou may’st warble, eat, and dwell.

The purpose of the preapplication conference is to allow the developer to meet informally with the planning board before going to the expense of preparing a formal plat.

[W]e come to a spot which must have been a favorite resting-place for the poet, a low stone seat under a huge live oak, with a formal plat of grass and a stone seat opposite.

Word Forms

• plats
• platting
• platted

Synonyms for plat

Depending on context, synonyms include bluntly, directly, straightforwardly, plot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plot, tract, parcel, flat, map, platter.

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