Plat Definition

plăt
plats, platted, platting
verb
plats
To plait or braid.
Webster's New World
To make a map or plan of.
Webster's New World

To strike with the hand; slap.

Wiktionary
To create a plat, to lay out streets and building lots; to map.
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noun
plats
A plait or braid.
Webster's New World
A small piece of ground.
Webster's New World
A map or plan, esp. of a piece of land divided into building lots.
Webster's New World
A small map showing the location of a piece of property in the context of adjoining lots, roads, and landmarks; a small piece of land. Also known as plot.
Webster's New World Law

(online gaming) Abbreviation for platinum coins, a currency used in the massively multiplayer online game Ultima Online.

Wiktionary
abbreviation
Plateau.
Webster's New World
Platoon.
Webster's New World
affix

Platy-

Webster's New World
adjective
(obsolete) Plain; flat; level.
Wiktionary
adverb
(obsolete) Plainly; flatly; downright.
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(obsolete) Flatly; smoothly; evenly.
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Other Word Forms of Plat

Noun

Singular:
plat
Plural:
plats

Origin of Plat

  • From Middle English platten, pletten, from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, to give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *platjaną (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *b(e)lad-, *b(e)led- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten ("to strike, bruise, crush, rub"; > Dutch pletteren), German platzen (“to burst, split, break up, bounce”), Swedish plätta (“to tap, pat”). Compare Old English plætt (“slap, smack, a sounding blow”). See pat.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English probably alteration (influenced by plat something flat) of plot plot

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Early Modern English platte, a variation (probably dialectal) of plot. More at plot.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English platen alteration of plaiten to fold, braid plait

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English, akin to plait.

    From Wiktionary

  • Abbreviation for platinum.

    From Wiktionary

  • Related to flat?

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Plat Sentence Examples

  • Occasionally such hills are called plat, i.e.

  • This is a charming little restaurant, with a good value plat du jour and a wide selection of simple inexpensive meals.

  • The homestead of any family in the state is exempt from attachment, lien or forced sale, except for taxes or purchase money, provided it has been properly recorded; but it can embrace only one dwelling house, cannot include gold or silver mines, and is limited in value to $5000 to one acre if within a town plat, to 40 acres if it is in the country and was acquired under the laws of the United States relating to mineral lands, and to 160 acres of other land in the country.

  • The east side was platted in the summer of 1835, and very soon afterward the plat of a settlement on the west side was also recorded, Byron Kilbourn being the chief projector and proprietor of the latter.

  • The In February 1839 this young lady, a daughter of the "Bed- marquis of Hastings, and a maid of honour to the chamber duchess of Kent, was accused by certain ladies of Plat' the bedchamber of immoral conduct.

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