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directory

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"Listing of names"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈɹɛktəɹi/Part of speech nounSorted cdeiorrtyStarts with DEnds with Y1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an alphabetical list of names and addresses

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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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