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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subplot
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A subplot plays in the background, where two men meet, light a cigarette and separate.
▪ He has a second reason, spelled out in one of several stagy subplots.
▪ He keeps wandering into minor subplots, about a flamenco dancer and a dancing doctors demonstration.
▪ In between the storms, a mix of subplots puddle up the movie.
▪ The first scene of the subplot also opposes and discriminates its protagonists.
▪ The story of water and Los Angeles divides itself into countless subplots.
▪ When subplots or scenes of local color are introduced, they relate to the main plot in a fundamental way.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subplot

also sub-plot, 1812 in literature, from sub- + plot (n.).

Wiktionary
subplot

n. 1 A plot within a story, subsidiary to the main plot. 2 A subdivision of a plot of land, especially one used for an agricultural experiment.

Wikipedia
Subplot

In fiction, a subplot is a secondary strand of the plot that is a supporting side story for any story or the main plot. Subplots may connect to main plots, in either time and place or in thematic significance. Subplots often involve supporting characters, those besides the protagonist or antagonist.

Subplots are distinguished from the main plot by taking up less of the action, having fewer significant events occur, with less impact on the 'world' of the work, and occurring to less important characters.

In screenwriting, a subplot is referred to as a "B story" or a "C story," etc.

Usage examples of "subplot".

The subplots generated by this compounding made the final novel richer, stronger and more interesting.

Make certain that your subplots are not so numerous that the reader becomes confused or, worse, bored with seemingly endless complications.

At the conclusion of your novel the subplots must be resolved, just as the major plot is.

A novel has space in which to develop a plot leisurely, with ample room for subplots, for detailed background, for description, for character development, for comic relief.

There will be times when most adults will find themselves faintly embarrassed to be gobbling the thing like hot buttered popcorn, but gobble they will all the same… Not one to husband his narrative energies, McCammon writes here as if he had several lives to squander, weaving together… enough plots and subplots to fill a half-dozen ordinary novels.

Even the grim psycho-drama of hair-loss has become a mere subplot in the heroic poem of his thoughts (Can Mary Love A Completely Bald Man?

A subplot evolves when a farmer in Germany locates an underground Nazi aircraft hangar.

A subplot evolves when a farmer in Germany locates an underground Nazi aircraft hangar.

Since Emma was the mature love interest, Taylor had, much to her relief, cut a subplot involving two young lovers.

I threw in autobiographical details and set the bulk of the book in the early '5os to spotlight a Red Scare subplot.