plot

Meaning

Noun

1. The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
2. An area or land used for building on or planting on.
3. A grave.
4. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
5. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
6. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
7. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
8. A plan; a purpose.
9. (euphemistic, slang) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.

Verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
2. (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
3. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).

Synonyms

scheme

plan

conspiracy

intrigue

conspire

design

lot

contrive

stratagem

diagram

devise

site

parcel

trick

map

chart

💹

storyline

outline

connive

story

draw

graph

plat

plot of land

machinate

land

region

project

complot

strategy

contrivance

ground

propose

game

field

scenario

draft

artifice

patch

machination

sketch

area

a lot

layout

bed

🛏️

attempt

portion

associate with

garden

district

Translations

complot

intrigue

complotto

appezzamento

parcela

trama

congiura

parcelle

Intrige

samenzwering

conspiration

Komplott

complot

Handlung

Pronounced as (IPA)

/plɒt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: plot

Inherited from Old English: plot

Cognate with Middle Low German: plet

Cognate with German: Bletz

Cognate with Gothic: 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃

In summary

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.

Sentences

The topmen began to plot mutiny .