plot

From Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), and possibly Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄 (plat, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of sense 5.

Sense 9 is a back-formation from for the plot.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /plɒt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /plɑt/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /plɑt̞/
  • (Dublin) IPA^(key): /pläʔ/, /plä/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

plot (plural plots)

1. (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. [from 1640s]

   Synonym: storyline

   • c. 1725, Alexander Pope, View of the Epic Poem:

     If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.

2. An area or land used for building on or planting on. [from 1550s]

   Synonym: parcel

3. A grave.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grave

   He's buried in the family plot.

4. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

   Synonyms: scheme; see also Thesaurus:diagram

   • 2017, Mark Chambers, Tony Holmes, Nakajima B5N ‘Kate’ and B6N ‘Jill’ Units, page 32:

     I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.

6. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. [from 1580s]

   Synonyms: conspiracy, intrigue, machination, scheme

   The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.

   The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:

     I have o'erheard a plot of death.

   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:

     O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!

7. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
   • a. 1669, John Denham, On Mr Thomas Killigrew's Return from Venice, and Mr William Murrey's from Scotland:

     a man of much plot

8. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
   • 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:

     And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.

9. A plan; a purpose.

   Synonyms: design; see also Thesaurus:design

   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:

     no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls

11. (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.

    Actor X has some great plot near the end of E07.

plot (third-person singular simple present plots, present participle plotting, simple past and past participle plotted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).

   They had plotted a robbery.

   They were plotting against the king.

2. (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).

   They plotted the number of edits per day.

3. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).

   Every five minutes they plotted their position.

   • 1602, Richard Carew, Survey on Cornwall:

     This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.

• (contrive): becast
• (conceive a crime, etc): connive
• (an area of land): lot

• replot
• plot out

• OLTP, PTOL, lopt, polt

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁tós (“full”),^[1][2][3] from the root *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Compare Sanskrit प्रात (prātá), Latin com-plētus.

plót

1. fully, to full capacity, to the brim

   Synonym: mbushur

   Antonyms: bosh, zbrazët

   me gojën plot ― with one's mouth full

   Dhoma ishte plot. ― The house was full.

2. full, cramped (of people, things, etc.)

   Synonym: mbushur

   Kopshti ishte plot me lule. ― The garden was full of flowers.

3. a lot, much

   Synonyms: shumë, mjaft

4. with everything, lacking nothing. complete, full
5. with a full, complete view

   Është hëna plot. ― It's a full moon.

6. (colloquial) successfully

   Synonym: në shenjë

   Antonym: bosh

7. full of. followed by an indefinite form

   Synonyms: tërë, gjithë

   plot gëzim ― full of joy

8. exactly, precisely

   Synonyms: pikërisht, tamam

   plot dy orë ― exactly two hours

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

Inherited from Old Czech plot, from Proto-Slavic *plotъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈplot]

plot m inan

1. fence

   dřevěný plot ― wooden fence

• “plot”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “plot”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “plot”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /plɔt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt

Borrowed from English plot.

plot m or n (plural plots, diminutive plotje n)

1. plot (course of a story)

   Synonyms: intrige, verhaal, verwikkeling

Borrowed from English plot.

plot m (plural plots, diminutive plotje n)

1. plot (graph or diagram)

   Synonyms: diagram, grafiek

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

plot

1. inflection of plotten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• IPA^(key): /plo/

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• IPA^(key): /plɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
• Rhymes: -o, -ɔ

plot m (plural plots)

1. traffic cone
2. cone used in slalom

• “plot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch plot, from English plot, from Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /plɔt/

plot

1. plot (course of a story)

• plot on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id
• “plot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

plot

1. third-person singular present indicative of ploen
2. second-person plural present indicative of ploen
3. second-person plural imperative of ploen

• IPA^(key): /plot/

plot m

1. plot (of land)

• Middle English: plot
  • English: plot

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “plot”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɔt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt
• Syllabification: plot

plot f

1. genitive plural of plota

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plotъ.

plȏt m inan (Cyrillic spelling пло̑т)

1. fence

• “plot”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “plot”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

plot m (plural plots)

1. (story-telling) plot