directory

Speech parts

1. directory - Noun

2. directory - Adjective

Meaning

Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.

A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.

A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.

A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.

Direction; guide.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

folder index register listing catalogue catalog database address book encyclopedia senate atlas almanac directorate gazette duma
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Antonyms

bluff rumple disorder disrupt disperse apprentice
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Hypernyms

list reference listing reference book reference work book of facts

Hyponyms

phonebook phone book blue book telephone directory telephone book subdirectory

Phrases with the word

directory number directory listing telephone numbers fixed disk directory directory services employee directory directory enquiry services

Derivatives

directories

Examples

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers. James Boswell

I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. William F. Buckley

Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory. George Bernard Shaw

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory. John McAfee

Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final addresses of key commands, variables, and constants. Saul Gorn

If you're purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn't illuminate. Werner Herzog

Close letter words and terms

directorly directors meeting directorship directory enquiry services directory listing telephone numbers directory number