## Meanings
1. A set of decisions about what you are going to do and how to do it.
2. To decide on and arrange in advance what you are going to do.
3. To intend to do something.
4. A detailed drawing of a building, machine, or area as seen from above.

## Examples
- They drew up a plan to expand the business.
- I am planning a trip with my family.
- They plan to be in graduate school next year.
- The plans for City Hall were on file.

## Synonyms
- blueprint

## Derived Forms
- battleplan
- bayplan
- counterplan
- flatplan
- foreplan
- ground-plan
- groundplan
- masterplan
- megaplan
- misplan
- newsplan
- nonplan

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: plānus
- Root: plant
- Root: plantāre

## 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”). Compare plane, plain.

## AI Etymology
Plan was borrowed from French plan (“flat surface, ground plot, map”), from Latin plānus. Another explanation argues for influence or alteration of French plant, from plantar, from Latin plantāre (“set, fix in place”). Compare plane, plain. In present-day English it covers a set of decisions about what you are going to do and how to do it, to decide on and arrange in advance what you are going to do, and to intend to do something. The wider family includes derived forms such as battleplan, bayplan, counterplan, flatplan, foreplan.

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- Tools, Machines & Construction
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