noun
platt
noun
1
An open marketplace or market square.
"Farmers still set up stalls on the old platt every Saturday morning."
How to Use Platt
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn old word for a marketplace, still surviving mainly in British place names.
Word Forms
platts plural
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Etymology
Related to German Platt, a short form of Plattdeutsch ("Low German"), and to the general Germanic root meaning "flat" or "open ground."