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Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
direct + -or, influenced by Latin directorius
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA: /dɪˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/, IPA: /daɪˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA: /dɪˈɹɛktɚ/, IPA: /daɪˈɹɛktɚ/
Wikipedia director (plural directors)
- One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).
- A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
- (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
Translations[edit]
supervisor, manager
- Arabic: مدير (ar) (mudiir) m, (film) مخرج (ar) (mukharrij) m
- Bulgarian: ръководител (bg) (rǎkovoditel) m, директор (bg) (direktor), режисьор (bg) (režisjor) m
- Catalan: director (ca) m, directora (ca) f, directora (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 經理 (cmn), 经理 (cmn) (jīnglǐ), (film) 導演 (cmn), 导演 (cmn) (dǎoyǎn), (conductor) 指揮 (cmn), 指挥 (cmn) (zhǐhuī), 指揮者 (cmn), 指挥者 (cmn) (zhǐhuīzhě)
- Croatian: upravitelj(-ica), ravnatelj(-ica), redatelj(-ica) ("ica" is added for females)
- Czech: ředitel m, režisér m (in film)
- Dutch: directeur (nl) m and f, regisseur (nl) m
- Esperanto: direktoro (eo), reĝisoro (eo)
- Finnish: johtaja, ohjaaja (film director)
- French: directeur (fr) m, (film) regisseur (fr) m
- German: Regisseur m, Regisseurin f (female director)
- Greek: (film director) σκηνοθέτης (el) (skinothétis) m, (film director) σκηνοθέτις (el) (skinothétis) f, διευθυντής (el) (diefthyntís) m, διευθύντρια (el) (diefthýntria) f
- Hebrew: מנהל (menahel) m, מנהלת (menahelet) f (manager); במאי (bamai) m, במאית (bamayt) f (in cinema or theater)
- Hungarian: igazgató (hu), rendező (hu)
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- Icelandic: leikstjóri (is) m
- Irish: stiúrthóir (ga) m
- Japanese: 監督 (ja) (かんとく, kantoku), (conductor) 指揮者 (ja) (しきしゃ, shikisha)
- Jèrriais: directeu m
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: کاربهدهست
- Malay: pengarah (ms), sutradara (ms), direktur (ms)
- Polish: reżyser (pl) m
- Romanian: director (ro) m, directori (ro) m pl, (film) regizor (ro) m, regizori (ro) m pl
- Russian: директор (ru) (diréktor) m, (film) режиссёр (ru) (režissjór) m, (conductor) дирижёр (ru) (dirižór) m
- Serbian: reditelj, zborovodja (in a choir)
- Slovak: riaditeľ m
- Spanish: director (es) m, directora (es) f
- Swahili: mkurugenzi (sw)
- Swedish: regissör (sv) c (movie/theater/show), chef (sv) c
- Turkish: yönetmen (tr)
- Vietnamese: quản đốc (vi)
- Volapük: dilekan (vo)
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Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
director m (plural directors, feminine directora)
- director
Spanish[edit]
director m (plural directores, feminine singular directora, feminine plural directoras)
- director
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