plan

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

• enPR: plăn, IPA^(key): /plæn/
• (US regional) IPA^(key): [plɛən]

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -æn

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 (lyrics and music), “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.
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave:

     The simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.

10. A subscription to a service.

    a phone plan

    an Internet plan

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

• → Japanese: プラン (puran)

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.

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

• “plan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “plan”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Other scripts

Cyrillic		план
Abjad		پلان

• Audio:

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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

Declension of plan
	singular	plural
nominative	plan	planlar
definite accusative	planı	planları
dative	plana	planlara
locative	planda	planlarda
ablative	plandan	planlardan
definite genitive	planın	planların

Possessive forms of plan
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	planım	planlarım
sənin (“your”)	planın	planların
onun (“his/her/its”)	planı	planları
bizim (“our”)	planımız	planlarımız
sizin (“your”)	planınız	planlarınız
onların (“their”)	planı or planları	planları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	planımı	planlarımı
sənin (“your”)	planını	planlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	planını	planlarını
bizim (“our”)	planımızı	planlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	planınızı	planlarınızı
onların (“their”)	planını or planlarını	planlarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	planıma	planlarıma
sənin (“your”)	planına	planlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	planına	planlarına
bizim (“our”)	planımıza	planlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	planınıza	planlarınıza
onların (“their”)	planına or planlarına	planlarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	planımda	planlarımda
sənin (“your”)	planında	planlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	planında	planlarında
bizim (“our”)	planımızda	planlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	planınızda	planlarınızda
onların (“their”)	planında or planlarında	planlarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	planımdan	planlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	planından	planlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	planından	planlarından
bizim (“our”)	planımızdan	planlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	planınızdan	planlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	planından or planlarından	planlarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	planımın	planlarımın
sənin (“your”)	planının	planlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	planının	planlarının
bizim (“our”)	planımızın	planlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	planınızın	planlarınızın
onların (“their”)	planının or planlarının	planlarının

• planlaşdırmaq

• “plan” in Obastan.com.

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”).

plan c (singular definite planen, plural indefinite planer)

1. a plan
2. a level or plane

• Audio:

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /plɑn/
• Hyphenation: plan
• Rhymes: -ɑn

Borrowed from French plan, from Middle French plant.

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

• Negerhollands: plan
• → Caribbean Javanese: plan
• → Indonesian: plan

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

plan

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

• IPA^(key): /plɑ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: plans, plant, plants

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

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, dated) a small case inserted in the rectum in order to hide one's valuables from a full-body search

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

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

1. planar

• lichen plan

• “plan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin plānus.

plan

1. flat, level, plane

• planc

• plac
• vualîf

plan m (plural plans)

1. plane
2. plan

From Middle High German plān, from Latin plānus.

• IPA^(key): /plaːn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːn

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!

• planlegen
• Pläne

• Plan

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /plan/, [ˈplan], [pə̆ˈlan]
• Hyphenation: plan

plan

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

   Synonym: rencana

• pelan (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• “plan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Polish plan.

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

plan m inan

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

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

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”).

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

1. a plan
2. a level or plane

• “plan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /plaːn/

From German Plan, from Latin plānum.

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

1. plane
2. level

• planovergang

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

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

1. a plan

   Kva er planen din? ― What's your plan?

From Latin planus.

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

1. plane, flat

• “plan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /pla/

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

plan m (plural plans)

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

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

1. flat

   Synonym: planièr

plan

1. well

   Antonym: mal

2. very, quite

   Synonym: fòrça

   mercés plan ― thank you very much

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[3], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 754.

Borrowed from French plan.^[1][2] Sense 1 is a semantic loan from English plan and German Plan.^[3] First attested in the 19th century.^[4]

• IPA^(key): /ˈplan/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: plan

plan m inan

2. plan (a set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal) [with żeby (+ past-tense clause or infinitive) ‘to do what’]

   Synonym: zamysł

3. plan (series of actions to be performed in a particular order and at a particular time)

   Synonyms: program, rozkład

4. plan (design of a creation)

   Synonyms: szkic, zarys

5. plan (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)
6. plane (place of objects or people in a painting, drawing, theatrical stage or landscape, which is distinguished by the distance from the observer)
7. (film) shot (range of view of the camera, resulting from its distance from the object being filmed)
8. (film) location; set (place where a movie is filmed)
9. all elements of the content or form of a work that have been distinguished as a result of its analysis and contrasted with the others (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

• → Kashubian: plan

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), plan is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 21 times in scientific texts, 81 times in news, 163 times in essays, 11 times in fiction, and 16 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 292 times, making it the 175th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[5]

• plan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• plan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “plan”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 220

Borrowed from French plan, from Latin planus.

plan n (plural planuri)

1. plan
2. (geometry) plane

plan m or n (feminine singular plană, masculine plural plani, feminine and neuter plural plane)

1. planar, flat

Borrowed from German Plan.

• IPA^(key): /plâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

plȃn m (Cyrillic spelling пла̑н)

1. plan

Borrowed from German Plan.

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

plan m inan

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

• plan in silling.org

From plano.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplan/ [ˈplãn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: plan

plan m (plural planes)

1. plan
2. scheme (systematic plan of future action)

   Synonyms: régimen, sistema

3. intention
4. (colloquial) mood

   Vamos en plan rómantico.

   We’re going in a romantic mood.

• → Basque: plan

• “plan”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• Audio:

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /plɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

plan (comparative planare, superlative planast)

1. plane (flat)

   en plan yta

   a flat surface

2. plane (level)

   Kulan rullar, så golvet är inte helt plant

   The marble rolls, so the floor isn't completely level

Inflection of plan
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	plan	planare	planast
Neuter singular	plant	planare	planast
Plural	plana	planare	planast
Masculine plural3	plane	planare	planast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	plane	planare	planaste
All	plana	planare	planaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

plan n

1. (mathematics) a plane; flat surface.
2. an airplane / aeroplane

   Synonym: flygplan

3. a plane; level of existence

   astralplan ― astral plane

plan c

1. a plan (planned actions)

   Jag har en plan

   I have a plan

2. a delimited, relatively level and flat area (like a delimited plane) (often used for sports, but also more general); a field, a rink, a yard, etc.

   Fotbollsspelarna sprang ut på planen

   The soccer players ran out onto the field

   ishockeyplan

   ice hockey rink (also called a rink)

   gårdsplan

   courtyard

3. a plan (drawing outlining a building, apartment, or the like, often more or less map-like)

• plan in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• plan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• plan in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• plân (superseded)

From Ottoman Turkish پلان (plân), from French plan.

• IPA^(key): /p(i)ˈlɑn/, [p(i).ˈlɑn̪]

plan (definite accusative planı, plural planlar)

1. plan

   plan yapmak ― to plan, to make a plan

Inflection
Nominative	plan
Definite accusative	planı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	plan	planlar
Definite accusative	planı	planları
Dative	plana	planlara
Locative	planda	planlarda
Ablative	plandan	planlardan
Genitive	planın	planların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular planım planlarım 2nd singular planın planların 3rd singular planı planları 1st plural planımız planlarımız 2nd plural planınız planlarınız 3rd plural planları planları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular planımı planlarımı 2nd singular planını planlarını 3rd singular planını planlarını 1st plural planımızı planlarımızı 2nd plural planınızı planlarınızı 3rd plural planlarını planlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular planıma planlarıma 2nd singular planına planlarına 3rd singular planına planlarına 1st plural planımıza planlarımıza 2nd plural planınıza planlarınıza 3rd plural planlarına planlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular planımda planlarımda 2nd singular planında planlarında 3rd singular planında planlarında 1st plural planımızda planlarımızda 2nd plural planınızda planlarınızda 3rd plural planlarında planlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular planımdan planlarımdan 2nd singular planından planlarından 3rd singular planından planlarından 1st plural planımızdan planlarımızdan 2nd plural planınızdan planlarınızdan 3rd plural planlarından planlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular planımın planlarımın 2nd singular planının planlarının 3rd singular planının planlarının 1st plural planımızın planlarımızın 2nd plural planınızın planlarınızın 3rd plural planlarının planlarının

• planlamak

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “plan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [plan]

plan (nominative plural plans)

1. plant (botany)