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See also: PLAN, Plan, plán, plån, plaň, pláň, and -plan
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English

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Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: plăn, IPA(key): /plæn/
  • (/æ/ tensing) IPA(key): [plɛən]
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æn

Noun

plan (plural plans)

  2. 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.
    Synonyms: design, scheme; see also Thesaurus:diagram
    The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.
  4. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
    Synonyms: design, scheme; see also Thesaurus:design
    He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.
    • 1980, John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”, in Double Fantasy:
      Life is what happens to you / While you're busy making other plans
  6. 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.
    Synonym: floor plan
    Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
  8. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
  10. A subscription to a service.
    a phone plan
    an Internet plan

Usage notes

  • A plan ("set of intended actions") can be developed, executed, implemented, ignored, abandoned, scrapped, changed, etc.

Synonyms

2-dimensional drawing of a building

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Hindi: pelan
  • → Japanese: プラン (puran)
  • → Malay: pelan
  • → Thai: แปลน (bplɛɛn)

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Verb

plan (third-person singular simple present plans, present participle planning, simple past and past participle planned)

  2. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
    The architect planned the building for the client.
  4. (transitive) To create a plan for.
    They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
  6. (intransitive) To intend.
    He planned to go, but work intervened.
    • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
      It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
  8. (intransitive) To make a plan.
    They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.

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Azerbaijani

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Pronunciation

Noun

plan (definite accusative planı, plural planlar)

  1. plan (set of intended actions), scheme
    Amma o ümidini itirmirdi, çünki artıq yeni möhtəşəm plan cızmışdı.
    But s/he didn't lose hope, because s/he had already come up with a new magnificent plan.
    beş illik planını üç il yarıma yerinə yetirmək ― to complete a five year plan in three and a half years
    bütün planlar pozuldu ― all plans were ruined
  2. draft, plan, scheme, contrivance, road map
  3. layout
    arxa plan ― background
    ön plan ― foreground
    bu gündəm arxa plana keçdi ― this agenda faded into the background

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Further reading

  • “plan” in Obastan.com.
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Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English plan.

Pronunciation

  • (Hong Kong Cantonese, alternative) IPA(key): /pʰlɛːn⁵⁵/

Noun

plan

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) plan (a subscription to a service) (Classifier: 個／个 c)
    手機plan／手机plan [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  sau2 gei1 plan [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

Verb

plan

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to plan

Synonyms

Danish

Etymology

From German Plan (“project, plan”), from French plan (“plan, map; plane”), from Latin plānus (“level, flat, even”), from plānus (“flat, even, level”), from Proto-Italic *plānos, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-no-s (“flattened”), from *pleh₂- (“flat”).

Noun

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plan c (singular definite planen, plural indefinite planer)

  1. a plan
  2. a level or plane

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French plan, from Middle French plant.

Noun

plan n (plural plannen, diminutive plannetje n)

  1. a set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal: plan, plot, scheme
  2. a technical drawing
  3. a detailed map of a relatively small area, such as a building or settlement
    Synonym: plattegrond
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Negerhollands: plan
  • → Caribbean Javanese: plan
  • → Indonesian: plan

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

plan

  1. inflection of plannen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative
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French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From earlier plant, derived from the verb planter, or from Latin planus. Doublet of plant or plain, depending on which etymology is right.

Noun

plan m (plural plans)

  1. map (schematic maps of streets, subways, etc.)
    un plan du métro ― a subway map
  2. plane (flat surface)
    un plan incliné ― an inclined plane
  3. (geometry) plane
  4. (film) shot
  5. plan
    Synonym: projet
    Quels sont tes plans pour cet été?
    What are your plans for this summer?
  6. (slang) hookup (short for plan cul)
  7. (slang) deal (short for bon plan)
  8. (slang, dated) a small case inserted in the rectum in order to hide one's valuables from a full-body search
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin plānus. Doublet of plain, which was inherited, and piano.

Adjective

plan (feminine plane, masculine plural plans, feminine plural planes)

  1. planar
Derived terms

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin plānus.

Adjective

plan

  1. flat, level, plane

See also

Noun

plan m (plural plans)

  1. plane
  2. plan

German

Etymology

From Middle High German plān, from Latin plānus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

plan (strong nominative masculine singular planer, comparative planer, superlative am plansten)

  1. (technical) planar, flat, level, smooth
    Synonym: eben
  2. (archaic) plain, forthright
    • 1887, Otto Gradenwitz, Die Ungültigkeit obligatorischer Rechtsgeschäfte, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, page 108:
      [Zur Auslegung von Dig. 16, 1, 8, 2] Ferner muss man wohl sagen, dass eine so plane Wahrheit, wie die, dass im Falle des Betruges keine Intercession vorliege, nicht erst von Marcellus entdeckt worden sein kann, und dass daher nicht erst Marcellus in seinen Noten den Julianus dahin zu corrigiren brauchte; dass die Betrügerin nicht intercedirt hat, das wusste auch Julianus!
      [Regarding the interpretation of Dig. 16, 1, 8, 2] One must say furthermore fittingly that such a plain truth like that in the case of fraud there is no intercession cannot have been discovered only by Marcellus, and that hence Marcellus did not have to correct Julianus in his notes; that the fraudstress has not interceded, this was already known to Julianus!

Declension

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Further reading

  • “plan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “plan” in Duden online
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Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

plan (uncountable)

  1. plan, a set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal
    Synonym: rencana

Further reading

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish plan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplan/
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: plan

Noun

plan m inan

  1. plan (a set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal)

Derived terms

verbs
  • planowac impf, zaplanowac pf

Further reading

  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “plan”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎, volume 2, page 425
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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Plan (“project, plan”), from French plan (“plan, map; plane”).

Noun

plan m (definite singular planen, indefinite plural planer, definite plural planene)

  1. a plan
  2. a level or plane

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From German Plan, from Latin plānum.

Noun

plan n (definite singular planet, indefinite plural plan, definite plural plana)

  1. plane
  2. level
Derived terms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

plan m (definite singular planen, indefinite plural planar, definite plural planane)

  1. a plan
    Kva er planen din? ― What's your plan?
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Latin planus.

Adjective

plan (neuter plant, definite singular and plural plane, comparative planare, indefinite superlative planast, definite superlative planaste)

  1. plane, flat

References

Occitan

Pronunciation

Noun

plan m (plural plans)

  1. plan (a drawing showing technical details of a building)
  2. plan (a set of intended actions)

Adjective

plan m (feminine singular plana, masculine plural plans, feminine plural planas)

  1. flat
    Synonym: planièr

Adverb

plan

  1. well
    Antonym: mal
  2. very, quite
    Synonym: fòrça
    mercés plan ― thank you very much

Further reading

  • Joan de Cantalausa (2006), Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 754

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