PLOT OF LAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plot of land mean? 

• PLOT OF LAND (noun)
  The noun PLOT OF LAND has 1 sense:

1. a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation

  Familiarity information: PLOT OF LAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLOT OF LAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

patch; plot; plot of ground; plot of land

Context example:

a briar patch

Hypernyms ("plot of land" is a kind of...):

parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plot of land"):

bed (a plot of ground in which plants are growing)

garden (a plot of ground where plants are cultivated)

 Context examples 

Then the merchant told him how all his wealth was gone to the bottom of the sea, and how he had nothing left but that little plot of land.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Thus from being a rich man he became all at once so very poor that nothing was left to him but one small plot of land; and there he often went in an evening to take his walk, and ease his mind of a little of his trouble.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)