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sub-plot

sub-plot is the alternative form of subplot.

Meaning of subplot

Noun

subplot (plural subplots)

  1. A plot within a story, subsidiary to the main plot.
    • Subplot, a story line enclosed within the principal story to provide relief from the main plot's tension, add character dimension, etc.1978, R.B. Lee & R. Misiorowski, Script Models: A Handbook for the Media Writer
  2. A subdivision of a plot of land, especially one used for an agricultural experiment.
    • [...] on sixteen 8/10-acre plots (12.8 acres) well distributed over the area. [...] A 1/160-acre subplot was established in a randomly chosen corner of each [...]1996, The American Midland Naturalist, the University of Notre Dame

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Forms of sub-plot

pluralsub-plots

Questions about sub-plot

What is sub-plot the alternative form of?
Sub-plot is the alternative form of subplot.

Words near sub-plot in the dictionary

  1. sub-paras.
  2. sub-period
  3. sub-periods
  4. sub-pixel
  5. sub-pixels
  6. sub-plot
  7. sub-plots
  8. sub-post office
  9. sub-post offices
  10. sub-postmaster
  11. sub-postmasters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sub-plot (page history and authors); subplot (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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