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ground-plan [Cf. Du. grondplan, Sw. grundplan.] 1. The representation on a plane of the arrangement, divisions, etc., of a building or other structure, at the ground-level.
1731W. Halfpenny Perspective 23 To draw the Perspective Elevation of the Stage..Draw the Ground-Plan..by the Rule laid down in the foregoing Example. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. xi. 235 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house, in the ground-plan. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 383 There are three of these furnaces, which are marked D in the ground-plan. 2. fig. The outline, general plan or basis upon which any work is constructed or composed.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. viii, Did the Maker take them into His counsel; that they read His groundplan of the incomprehensible All? 1840Hood Up Rhine Pref. 1 The following work was constructed, partly on the ground-plan of Humphrey Clinker. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets viii. 254 It was the purpose of Aristophanes to keep his serious ground-plan concealed. |