plot – English noun declension

English noun forms of plot

Noun: plot
Singularplot
Pluralplots

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [c. 1725, Alexander Pope, View of the Epic Poem:]
  • He's buried in the family plot.
  • I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast. [2017, Mark Chambers, Tony Holmes, Nakajima B5N ‘Kate’ and B6N ‘Jill’ Units, page 32:]
  • The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
  • The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.
  • I have o'erheard a plot of death. [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]:]
  • O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods! [1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii, page 8:]
  • a man of much plot [a. 1669, John Denham, On Mr Thomas Killigrew's Return from Venice, and Mr William Murrey's from Scotland:]
  • And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce. [1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:]
  • no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls [1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:]
  • Actor X has some great plot near the end of E07.

Etymology

1. From Middle English plot, plotte, from late Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”); or alternatively, perhaps from a rebracketing of Old English land-splott (“small portion, or plot, of ground”) taken as landes-plot (“plot of land”). Compare 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 and reinforcement of noun sense 8.
2. Noun sense 12 is a back-formation from for the plot. See: Middle English Nouns 'plot', Gothic Nouns '𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄'.

Verbs referencing "plot"

English Nouns plat, Dutch Nouns plot, Swedish Nouns plätt, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns plott, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns plott, Gothic Nouns 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄, German Nouns Plot, Old Norse Nouns piltr.