Meanings
agenda1
nounagenda (plural agendas or (rare, proscribed) agendae)
plural agendas · plural proscribed rare agendae
- A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club, retrieved 24 Nov 2024Synonyms: docket, tasklist, to-do list, worklist
- A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
It may be better to simply buy an agenda at the drug store for five dollars, but you need to keep this stuff accurate.
2011, Spencer Marc Aronfeld, Make It Your Own Law Firm: The Ultimate Law Student's Guide to Owning, Managing, and Marketing Your Own Successful Law Firm, AuthorHouse, page 122 more examples
A homework agenda, sometimes called a student planner, is a notebook often used to help your child keep track of daily homework assignments.
2005, Linda Wilmshurst, Alan W. Brue, A Parent's Guide To Special Education: Insider Advice On How To Navigate The System And Help Your Child Succeed, →ISBN, page 145The children will use an agenda book that the school provides to organize their homework information. Before leaving for home, the children will neatly write their assignments and related directions in their agendas.
2011, David Campos, Rocio Delgado, Mary Esther Huerta, Reaching Out to Latino Families of English Language Learners, →ISBN, page 160 - figurativelyAn ulterior motive; a program of various such motives.
I haven't got an agenda / I haven't еven got a gender
2025, “My Sex”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), More, performed by Pulp2 more examples
These plans are the complete opposite of the path pursued by Emmanuel Macron since 2017. His agenda has exacerbated both income and wealth inequality, while there has been no change in investment, job creation or growth.
2024 July 3, Julia Cagé, Thomas Piketty, “France’s ‘hard left’ has been demonised – but its agenda is realistic, not radical”, in The Guardian, →ISSNBy invoking a wartime authority in service of a peacetime deportation agenda, he has gone beyond what even this draconian power permits.
2025 April 24, Katherine Yon Ebright, Elizabeth Goitein, “Trump Is Attempting to Use Wartime Powers in the United States”, in The Atlantic - obsoleteA ritual.
noun
- archaicpluralplural of agendum
verbagenda (third-person singular simple present agendas, present participle agendaing, simple past and past participle agendaed)
present singular third person agendas · participle present agendaing · participle past agendaed · past agendaed
- formaltransitiveTo add (an item) to an official schedule.
Agenda2
proper noun
- A city and village in Kansas, United States.
- A town in Wisconsin, United States.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
nouna list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂eǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éǵeti
- Proto-Italic*agō
- Latinagō
- Latinagenda
- Englishagenda
From Latin agenda (“things that ought to be done”), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (“to do, act, make”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic جَدْوَل, جَدْوَل أَعْمَال
- جَدْوَل (jadwal)temporally organized plan
- جَدْوَل أَعْمَال (jadwal ʔaʕmāl)temporally organized plan
- جَدْوَل (jadwal)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- جَدْوَلَ أَعْمَال (jadwala ʔaʕmāl)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- بَرْنَامَج (barnāmaj)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- جَدْوَل (jadwal)agenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
- أَجَنْدَة (ʔajanda)agenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
- مُخَطِّط اليَوْمِيّ (muḵaṭṭiṭ al-yawmiyy)agenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
Bulgarian програ́ма, дне́вен ред
- програ́ма (prográma)temporally organized plan
- дне́вен ред (dnéven red)temporally organized plan
- дне́вен ред (dnéven red)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Catalan agenda, ordre del dia
- agendatemporally organized plan
- ordre del dialist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- agendaagenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
Chinese Mandarin 議程 /议程, 議事日程 /议事日程
- 議程 /议程 (yìchéng)temporally organized plan
- 議事日程 /议事日程 (yìshì rìchéng)temporally organized plan
- 議程 /议程 (yìchéng)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- 議事日程 /议事日程 (yìshì rìchéng)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Czech agenda, program
- agendatemporally organized plan
- programlist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- agendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Danish agenda, dagsorden
- agendatemporally organized plan
- dagsordentemporally organized plan
- dagsordenlist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- programlist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- agendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Dutch schema, programma
- schematemporally organized plan
- programmatemporally organized plan
- plantemporally organized plan
- agendatemporally organized plan
- agendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- programmalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Estonian agenda, agenda
- agendatemporally organized plan
- agendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Finnish asialista, esityslista
- asialistatemporally organized plan
- esityslistalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- asialistalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- päivyriagenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
French planning, ordre du jour
- planningtemporally organized plan
- ordre du jourlist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- agendaagenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
German Agenda, Tagesordnung
- Agendatemporally organized plan
- Tagesordnungtemporally organized plan
- Tagesordnunglist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- Agendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- Agendaagenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
Hebrew סֵדֶר יוֹם, סֵדֶר יוֹם
- סֵדֶר יוֹם (séder yom)temporally organized plan
- סֵדֶר יוֹם (séder yom)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- יוֹמָן (yomán)agenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
Hindi कार्यसूची
- कार्यसूची (kāryasūcī)temporally organized plan
Hungarian napirend, napirend
- napirendtemporally organized plan
- napirendlist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Italian agenda, agenda
- agendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- agendaagenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
Japanese 議題, 議事
- 議題 (gidai)temporally organized plan
- 議事 (giji)temporally organized plan
- 議事日程 (gishi nittei)temporally organized plan
- 議題 (gidai)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- 議事 (giji)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- 議事日程 (gishi nittei)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Korean 의제, 의사일정
- 의제 (uije)temporally organized plan
- 의사일정 (uisailjeong)temporally organized plan
- 의제 (uije)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- 의사일정 (uisailjeong)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Latvian dienas kārtība, dienas kārtība
- dienas kārtībatemporally organized plan
- dienas kārtībalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- darba kārtībalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Lithuanian darbotvarkė, darbotvarkė
- darbotvarkėtemporally organized plan
- darbotvarkėlist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Māori rārangi take
- rārangi takelist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Norwegian agenda
- agendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Norwegian Bokmål agenda, dagsorden
- agendatemporally organized plan
- dagsordentemporally organized plan
- dagsordenlist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- agendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Persian آژندا
- آژندا (âžendâ)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Polish porządek dzienny, agenda
- porządek dziennytemporally organized plan
- agendatemporally organized plan
- porządek dziennylist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- agendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Portuguese programa, pauta
- programatemporally organized plan
- pautalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Romanian agendă, ordine de zi
- agendătemporally organized plan
- ordine de zilist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- agendălist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- agendăagenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
Russian пове́стка, програ́мма
- пове́стка (povéstka)temporally organized plan
- програ́мма (prográmma)temporally organized plan
- план (plan)temporally organized plan
- адже́нда (adžénda)temporally organized plan
- аге́нда (agénda)temporally organized plan
- пове́стка (povéstka)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- пове́стка дня (povéstka dnja)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- адже́нда (adžénda)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- аге́нда (agénda)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Slovak agenda, program
- agendatemporally organized plan
- programlist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- agendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Spanish programa, plan
- programatemporally organized plan
- plantemporally organized plan
- agendatemporally organized plan
- orden del díalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- agendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- temariolist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- balotariolist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- agendaagenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
- memorándumagenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
- memorandoagenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
Swahili ajenda, ajenda
- ajendatemporally organized plan
- ajendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Swedish agenda, dagordning
- agendatemporally organized plan
- dagordningtemporally organized plan
- agendalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- dagordninglist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- föredragningslistalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Tagalog tikmaan
- tikmaantemporally organized plan
Turkish ajanda, ajanda
- ajandatemporally organized plan
- ajandalist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- ajandaagenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
- andaçagenda book; notebook for organizing and planning
Ukrainian поря́док де́нний, програ́ма
- поря́док де́нний (porjádok dénnyj)temporally organized plan
- програ́ма (prohráma)temporally organized plan
- план (plan)temporally organized plan
- аге́нда (ahénda)temporally organized plan
- поря́док де́нний (porjádok dénnyj)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- аге́нда (ahénda)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- адже́нда (adžénda)list of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Vietnamese nghị trình, chương trình nghị sự
- nghị trìnhlist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
- chương trình nghị sựlist of matters to be taken up — see also order of the day
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with agenda
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APA
agenda. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agenda
MLA
“agenda.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agenda. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “agenda,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agenda.
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