How to pronounce plot

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What plot means

noun

Most people know plot in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A small piece of ground for a garden or building

In a sentence: Grandma grows beans and tomatoes on her little plot behind the library.

Where it comes from: It comes from an Old English word for a small patch of ground, and no one is sure where that word came from. The meaning for what happens in a story came along later, in the 1640s.

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