plan in English: An idea about what you will do and how you will do it before you start. (noun)

Translation

An idea about what you will do and how you will do it before you start.

Word origin

From French plan, a flat drawing or map, from Latin planus meaning flat.

Origin: French
Root: planus

Grammar

Gender

Pluralplans

Examples

.

Here "plan" is the idea of what you will do.

.

"Plans" is the plural, more than one idea about what to do.

?

Here "plan" asks what you are going to do.

A plan is what you decide to do before you do it. The word "plan" can also be used as a verb, as in "I plan to leave early".

Related words

idea

A thought or plan that you form in your mind.

think

To use your mind to form ideas, opinions, or beliefs about something.

do

To carry out an action, and also a helper word used to make questions and negatives.

way

A method of doing something, or a road or path from one place to another.

work

To do a job or use effort to make or finish something.

arrange

To put things in a good order, or to plan something so that it happens.

campaign

A set of actions planned over weeks or months to reach one goal, such as winning an election or changing people's minds.

cancel

To say that a plan or an event will not happen after all. American English writes canceled and canceling with one l.

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