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Learn to pronounce i·de·a

/īˈdēə/
noun
  1. a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action.
    "the idea of linking pay to performance has caught on"
    synonyms: plan, design, scheme, project, proposal, proposition, suggestion, recommendation, aim, intention, objective, object, purpose, end, goal, target
  2. the aim or purpose.
    "I took a job with the idea of getting some money together"
    synonyms: purpose, point, aim, object, objective, goal, intention, end, end in view, design, reason, use, utility, sense, motive, value, advantage
  3. (in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies.

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