plat
/plæt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
noun
Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
Countable; Uncountable
adj
Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
Example Sentences
- "The best ſoyle commonly yeelds the worſt Ayre, a dry ſandy plat is fitteſt to build upon, and ſuch as is rather hilly then plaine, full of Downes, a Cotſwald county, as being moſt commodious for hawking, hunting, wood, waters, and all manner of pleaſures."
- "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."
- "[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."
- "For which cauſe I wiſh you to enter into conſideration of the matter, & to note all the Iſlands, and to ſet them downe in plat, to two ends: that is to ſay, That we may deuiſe to take the benefit by them, And alſo foreſee how by them the Sauages or ciuill Princes may in any ſort annoy us in our purpoſed trade that way."
- "A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference."
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English plat, platte (“flat part of a sword; flat piece of ground, plot of ground”), probably a variant of Middle English plot, (modern English plot) and influenced by Middle English plat, plate (modern English plate) and Anglo-Norman, Middle French and Old French plat. See platy-, plaice, flat. The verb is derived from the noun.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /plæt/
- British English: /plæt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
plats (plural)
plats (present, singular)
platting (participle, present)
platted (participle, past)
platted (past)
more plat (comparative)
most plat (superlative)