Noun: plan
Sample Sentences
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The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.
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He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.
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Sweet darling, don't you know somewhere / In the land where plans are made / Someone has written a story / Put down the pen and turn the page [1977, The Originals, “Been Decided”, in Down to Love Town:]
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Life is what happens to you / While you're busy making other plans [1980, John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”, in Double Fantasy:]
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Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
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The simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can. [1815, William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave:]
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a phone plan
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an Internet plan
Nouns inflected like plan
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). Doublet of llano, piano, plane, and plain. See: French Nouns '
plan', Latin Nouns '
plānus', French Nouns '
plant', Latin Nouns '
plantāre'.
Verbs referencing "plan"
Irish Nouns
plean.