directory

Definition

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

Etymology

From Middle English directorie, dyrectorye, from Medieval Latin dīrēctōrium. By surface analysis, direct + -ory. Doublet of directorium. The political sense is a semantic loan from French directoire.

Example Sentences

• "look up an address in the directory"
• "[…] 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."

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