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plot line

plot line is the alternative spelling of plotline.

Meaning of plotline

Noun

plotline (plural plotlines)

  1. The basic plot of a story or group of stories.
  2. A group of stories sharing a plot.
    • Advocacy groups have long known the power of TV plot lines. Back in the 1980s, the Harvard School of Public Health mounted a campaign to normalize the idea of a “designated driver” to reduce drunk driving.2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2014

Forms of plot line

pluralplot lines

Questions about plot line

What is plot line the alternative spelling of?
Plot line is the alternative spelling of plotline.

Words near plot line in the dictionary

  1. plot coupons
  2. plot device
  3. plot devices
  4. plot hole
  5. plot holes
  6. plot line
  7. plot lines
  8. plot out
  9. plot point
  10. plot points
  11. plot twist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plot line (page history and authors); plotline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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