Directory Definition

dĭ-rĕktə-rē, dī-
directories
noun
A book listing the names, addresses, etc. of a specific group of persons.
A telephone directory.
Webster's New World
A book of directions, as for church service.
Webster's New World
A grouping of files that are stored on a disk, diskette, etc.
Webster's New World
A group or body of directors.
American Heritage
A listing of such files.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Serving to direct.
American Heritage
Directing, guiding, or advising.
Webster's New World

Containing directions; instructing; directorial.

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Other Word Forms of Directory

Noun

Singular:
directory
Plural:
directories

Origin of Directory

  • From Middle English directorie, from Medieval Latin directorium.

    From Wiktionary

Directory Sentence Examples

  • Clearly, then, the Directory was doomed.

  • The Directory was guilty of even greater abuses in dealing with the assignats.

  • In this Assembly he proposed that " a confession of faith, a catechism, a directory for all the parts of the public worship, and a platform of government, wherein possibly England and we might agree," should be drawn up. This was unanimously approved of, and the laborious undertaking was left in Henderson's hands; but the " notable motion " did not lead to any immediate results.

  • To avoid disbanding it, which might, as after the peace of Basel, have given the counter-revolution further auxiliaries, the Directory appointed Bonaparte chief of the Army of England, and employed Jourdan to revise the conscription laws so as to make military service a permanent duty of the citizen, since war was now to be the permanent object of policy.

  • For the constitution of the year 1795 which inaugurated the period of the Directory (1795-1799) see French Revolution.

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