plan

Speech parts

1. plan - Noun

2. plan - Adjective

3. plan - Verb

4. Plan - Proper noun

Meaning

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.

A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.

To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.

To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

design project program scheme blueprint method approach plot procedure proposal aim draft chart programme prepare
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Antonyms

babel maelstrom kismet chance web disorder
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Hypernyms

system idea mean organization think arrangement

Hyponyms

design direct project engineer pattern frame

Phrases with the word

strategic plan Five-Year Plan sounds like a plan according to plan plan ahead no plan survives contact with the enemy

Derivatives

planned planning

Examples

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. Publilius Syrus

You can never plan the future by the past. Edmund Burke

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. Heath Ledger

If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be a part of someone else's. American Proverb

Coincidence defeats a well-laid plan. Filipino Proverb

Failing to plan is planning to fail. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Plamegate plamodel Plamondon plan A plan ahead plan ahead for