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platt

n. countable
C2 Proficiency US //ˈpɫæt// platt Archaic

n. a small piece of ground or a map showing a specific area of land. It is an old-fashioned word for a plot of land or a plan.

n. a small piece of ground; a plot or a plan of a specific area. Archaic in modern usage, having been largely superseded by the spelling 'plot'.


SIMPLE

The gardener marked out a small platt for the new herbs.

CONTEXTUAL

The surveyor drew a detailed platt of the estate to show the boundaries of the inherited land.

COMPLEX

In the dusty archives of the parish, we discovered a hand-drawn platt that clearly delineated the original village commons before the enclosure acts changed the landscape forever.

Usage

An archaic variant of 'plot'; primarily found in historical documents or legal descriptions of land.

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