Word.ws English Dictionary

plotlines

plotlines is the plural 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

Questions about plotlines

What is plotlines the plural of?
Plotlines is the plural of plotline.

Words near plotlines in the dictionary

  1. plotlessly
  2. plotlessness
  3. plotlet
  4. plotlets
  5. plotline
  6. plotlines
  7. Plotner
  8. Plotners
  9. Plotnick
  10. Plotnicks
  11. Plotnik

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: plotlines (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “plotlines.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plotlines. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.