English Explanatory Dictionary

plan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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. To design (a building, machine, etc.).
  2. To create a plan for.
  3. To intend.
  4. To make a plan.
name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. Abbreviation of People's Liberation Army Navy The national navy of the People's Republic of China.
  2. A particular standardized examination taken by high-school students.

Pronunciation

plăn /plæn/ [plɛən] en-us-plan.ogg

Word forms

plan plans planning planned

Etymology

Borrowed from French plan (“flat surface, ground plot, map”), from Latin plānus. Some sources also argue for influence or alteration of French plant, from plantar, from Latin plantāre (“set, fix in place”). Compare plane, plain.

Synonyms

blueprint design scheme chart diagram map graph graphic plan plot schematic project proposal floor plan

Derived words

according to plan action plan American plan attack plan band plan battleplan bayplan birth plan body plan business plan Cadillac plan cafeteria plan campaign plan Chequers plan city plan contingency plan development plan dividend reinvestment plan escalation plan European plan flatplan flight plan floor plan floor plan lending Fugu Plan game plan go to plan grid plan groundplan ground plan ground-plan installment plan Keogh plan lesson plan life plan marketing plan Marshall Plan master plan masterplan megaplan Mississippi plan modified American plan New Jersey Plan newsplan no battle plan survives contact with the enemy no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy nonplan no plan survives contact with the enemy no plan survives first contact with the enemy off-plan off the plan open floor plan open-plan open-plan kitchen oplan party plan passage plan pension plan plan A plan B
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