[ʌɪˈdɪə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action
(e.g: the idea of linking pay to performance has caught on)

- the aim or purpose
(e.g: I took a job with the idea of getting some money together)

- (in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies


Phrases:
- get ideas
- give someone ideas
- have no idea
- not someone's idea of
- put ideas into someone's head
- that's an idea
- that's the idea
- the very idea!
- you have no idea

Origin:
late Middle English (in idea): via Latin from Greek idea ‘form, pattern’, from the base of idein ‘to see’