Kilo Lingo

plan

/plæn/

Line drawing of plan
Coloured illustration of plan
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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

weekend.

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

minute.

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

today?

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".

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This word is part of lesson 5.