directory

UK /dɪˈɹɛktəɹi/ US /dɪˈɹɛktəɹi/

noun 4adj 1

Definitions

noun

A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.

look up an address in the directory

A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.

A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other directories may be stored. The files and subdirectories in a directory are usually related.

A form of government with a collegial executive whose members jointly exercise power; the executive of such a government.

[…] at the Ufa State Conference it was it was the union's conception of a directory (rather than a dictatorship) to rule anti-Bolshevik Russia that won the day.

adj

Containing directions; instructing; directorial.

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

business, shopping, telephone, trade

I looked up the restaurant's phone number in the online business directory.

VERB + DIRECTORY

consult, look sb/sth up in

compile, create

edit

produce, publish

PREP

in a/the ~

You can find her phone number in the directory if you need to contact her.

~ of

I found a helpful directory of local restaurants and their phone numbers online.

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look up an address in the directory

Wiktionary

[…] at the Ufa State Conference it was it was the union's conception of a directory (rather than a dictatorship) to rule anti-Bolshevik Russia that won the day.

Wiktionary

I looked up his telephone number in a telephone directory.

Tatoeba · #259630

No, I don't. You had better look it up in a telephone directory.

Tatoeba · #277000

May I see the telephone directory?

Tatoeba · #279366

I'm not sure what his number is. You'll have to look it up in the telephone directory.

Tatoeba · #287211

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