idea
noun
[ ʌɪˈdɪə ]
• a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action.
• "the idea of linking pay to performance has caught on"
Similar:
plan,
design,
scheme,
project,
proposal,
proposition,
suggestion,
recommendation,
aim,
intention,
objective,
object,
purpose,
end,
goal,
target,
• the aim or purpose.
• "I took a job with the idea of getting some money together"
Similar:
purpose,
point,
aim,
object,
objective,
goal,
intention,
end,
end in view,
design,
reason,
use,
utility,
sense,
motive,
value,
advantage,
• (in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies.
Origin:
late Middle English (in idea (sense 3)): via Latin from Greek idea ‘form, pattern’, from the base of idein ‘to see’.
