plan

Meaning

Noun

1. A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
2. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
3. A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
4. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
5. A subscription to a service.

Verb

1. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
2. (transitive) To create a plan for.
3. (intransitive) To intend.
4. (intransitive) To make a plan.

Synonyms

scheme

design

project

plot

intention

intend

program

blueprint

purpose

contrive

schedule

idea

💡

devise

arrange

diagram

aim

programme

prepare

sketch

device

policy

drawing

layout

draft

think

🤔

outline

stratagem

method

map

intent

meaning

arrangement

strategy

attempt

mean

chart

💹

contrivance

system

goal

schema

engineer

pattern

desire

propose

order

decide

conspire

expedient

ground plan

invent

Translations

Plan

plan

projet

plan

progetto

planen

plan

plano

Entwurf

planifier

ontwerp

progettare

piano

Vorhaben

Pronounced as (IPA)

/plæn/

Etymology

Borrowed from French plan (“a ground-plot of a building”), from plan (“flat”), a later form of the vernacular plain, from Latin planus (“flat, plane”); see plain, plane.

Sentences

The plan may be to die together , or separately and closely timed .

No plan was so suggestive as that of quenching his sight .

In Northern Cyprus , the Turkish numbering plan is in use .

His plan has been commented on in a variety of forums .