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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”). Compare plane, plain.

plan (plural plans)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
    • 1977, The Originals, “Been Decided”, in Down to Love Town:
      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
    • 1980, John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”, in Double Fantasy:
      Life is what happens to you / While you're busy making other plans
  3. 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.
  4. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
  5. A subscription to a service.
    a phone plan
    an Internet plan

technical drawing

set of intended actions

2-dimensional drawing from above

Translations to be checked

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

  1. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
    The architect planned the building for the client.
  2. (transitive) To create a plan for.
    They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
  3. (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.
  4. (intransitive) To make a plan.
    They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.

to design

to create a plan for

to intend

From planu.

plan m (plural planes)

  1. plan
  2. (colloquial) attitude
    Con esi plan nun llegues denyuri.
    With that attitude, you'll get nowhere
  3. (colloquial) something convenient or acceptable
    Eso nun ye plan.
    That's not acceptable.

plan (definite accusative planı, plural planlar)

  1. plan (set of intended actions), scheme
    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

Borrowed from English plan.

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)

plan

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to plan

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”).

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plan c (singular definite planen, plural indefinite planer)

  1. a plan
  2. a level or plane

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

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

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) 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

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

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

  1. planar

From Latin plānus.

plan

  1. flat, level, plane

plan m (plural plans)

  1. plane
  2. plan

From Middle High German plān, from Latin plānus.

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!

Comparative forms of plan

Superlative forms of plan

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.

plan (uncountable)

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

Proto-Indo-European *pel-?

Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂nk / *gteh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Italic *-āō

Old French

Kashubian plan

Borrowed from Polish plan.

plan m inan

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

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

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

  1. a plan
  2. a level or plane

From German Plan, from Latin plānum.

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

  1. plane
  2. level

(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 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

Proto-Indo-European *pel-?

Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂nk / *gteh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Italic *-āō

Old French

Polish plan

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]

plan m inan

  1. 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
  2. plan (series of actions to be performed in a particular order and at a particular time)
    Synonyms: program, rozkład
  3. plan (design of a creation)
    Synonyms: szkic, zarys
  4. 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)
  5. plane (place of objects or people in a painting, drawing, theatrical stage or landscape, which is distinguished by the distance from the observer)
  6. (film) shot (range of view of the camera, resulting from its distance from the object being filmed)
  7. (film) location; set (place where a movie is filmed)
  8. 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?)

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]

  1. ^ Dubisz, Stanisław, editor (2003), “plan”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal Dictionary of the Polish Language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1–4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, →OCLC
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “plan I”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “plan II”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  4. ^ Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “plan”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “plan”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[2] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 372

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/neuter plural plane)

  1. planar, flat

Borrowed from German Plan.

plȃn m inan (Cyrillic spelling пла̑н)

  1. plan

Proto-Indo-European *pel-?

Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂nk / *gteh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Italic *-āō

Old French

Silesian plan

Borrowed from German Plan.

plan m inan

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

From plano.

plan m (plural planes)

  1. plan
    • 2020 September 24, Matt Villano, “Estudiantes con necesidades especiales enfrentan desafíos de aprendizaje virtual”, in CNN en Español‎[9]:
      En total, hay aproximadamente 7 millones de estudiantes con necesidades especiales en Estados Unidos que califican para adaptaciones específicamente diseñadas en la escuela, conocidas como plan educativo individualizado o IEP. […] Ninguna discusión sobre el aprendizaje virtual para estudiantes con necesidades especiales puede comenzar sin al menos una explicación superficial de qué son los planes de educación individualizados y cómo funcionan normalmente en un entorno escolar.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. scheme (systematic plan of future action)
    Synonyms: régimen, sistema
  3. intention
    Synonym: intensión
  4. (colloquial) mood
    Synonym: ánimo
    Vamos en plan rómantico.
    We’re going in a romantic mood.

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

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

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

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

plan (definite accusative planı, plural planlar)

  1. plan
    plan yapmak ― to plan, to make a plan

plan (genitive plana, plural plans)

  1. plant (botany)