- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈɹɛktəɹi/, /daɪˈɹɛktəɹi/
From Middle English directorie, dyrectorye, from Medieval Latin dīrectōrium. Doublet of directorium.
directory (plural directories)
A typical icon of a directory (3)
- A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.
- Hypernyms: list, reference work
- Hyponym: telephone directory
look up an address in the directory
- (computing) A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.
- (computing) 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.
- Synonym: folder
- Hyponyms: home directory, subdirectory
- Coordinate terms: label, pseudodirectory, tag
list of names, addresses etc.
- Bulgarian: указа́тел (bg) m (ukazátel)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 名錄／名录 (zh) (mínglù), 簿 (zh) (bù)
- Czech: adresář (cs) m
- Dutch: (usually with an adjective to distinguish it from a tourist guide) gids (nl) m, repertorium (nl) n, telefoongids (nl), Gouden gids, Witte gids
- Esperanto: telefonlibro
- Finnish: hakemisto (fi)
- French: annuaire (fr)
- German: Verzeichnis (de) n
- Greek: κατάλογος (el) m (katálogos)
- Hungarian: címtár (hu)
- Icelandic: efnisskrá (is) f
- Indonesian: direktori
- Italian: elenco (it) m, lista (it) f
- Japanese: 一覧 (ja) (いちらん, ichiran), 名鑑 (ja) (めいかん, meikan)
- Kazakh: анықтамалық (anyqtamalyq)
- Macedonian: и́меник m (ímenik), а́дресар m (ádresar)
- Portuguese: diretório (pt) m (Portugal), diretoria (pt) f (Brazil)
- Russian: указа́тель (ru) m (ukazátelʹ), пе́речень (ru) m (pérečenʹ), катало́г (ru) m (katalóg), спра́вочник (ru) m (správočnik)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: и̏менӣк m
- Roman: ȉmenīk (sh) m
- Spanish: directorio (es) m
- Swedish: katalog (sv) c
- Tagalog: talahanapan
- Welsh: cyfarwyddiadur m, cyfeiriadur m
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structured listing of files
- Belarusian: па́пка (be) f (pápka), катало́г m (katalóh), дырэкто́рыя f (dyrektóryja)
- Bulgarian: директо́рия (bg) f (direktórija)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 目錄／目录 (zh) (mùlù)
- Czech: adresář (cs) m
- Dutch: lijst (nl) f
- Esperanto: katalogo
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: hakemisto (fi)
- French: dossier (fr) m, répertoire (fr) m
- German: Ordner (de) m, Verzeichnis (de) n
- Greek: κατάλογος (el) m (katálogos)
- Hindi: डायरेक्टरी (ḍāyrekṭarī)
- Hungarian: könyvtárlista, mappalista
- Indonesian: direktori
- Italian: cartella (it) f, directory (it) f (programming)
- Japanese: ディレクトリ (ja) (direkutori), フォルダ (ja) (foruda)
- Korean: 디렉토리 (ko) (direktori), 폴더 (poldeo)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: ка́талог m (kátalog), па́пка f (pápka)
- Malay: direktori
- Maori: whaiaronga
- Persian: دایرکتوری (dâyrektori)
- Polish: katalog (pl) m
- Russian: катало́г (ru) m (katalóg), па́пка (ru) f (pápka), директо́рия (ru) f (direktórija)
- Slovak: adresár (sk) m
- Swedish: katalog (sv) c
- Thai: ไดเรกทอรี
- Turkish: dizin (tr), klasör (tr)
- Ukrainian: па́пка f (pápka), катало́г (uk) m (katalóh), директо́рія f (dyrektórija)
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simulated folder
- Catalan: directori (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 目錄／目录 (zh) (mùlù)
- Czech: adresář (cs) m
- Dutch: folder (nl) m, map (nl) f
- Esperanto: dosierujo
- Finnish: kansio (fi), hakemisto (fi)
- French: dossier (fr) m, répertoire (fr) m
- German: Ordner (de) m, Verzeichnis (de) n
- Greek: κατάλογος (el) m (katálogos)
- Hungarian: könyvtár (hu), mappa (hu)
- Indonesian: direktori
- Italian: cartella (it) f
- Japanese: ディレクトリ (ja) (direkutori), フォルダ (ja) (foruda)
- Macedonian: ка́талог m (kátalog), па́пка f (pápka)
- Polish: katalog (pl) m
- Portuguese: diretório (pt), diretoria (pt) f
- Russian: катало́г (ru) m (katalóg), па́пка (ru) f (pápka), директо́рия (ru) f (direktórija), фо́лдер (ru) m (fóldɛr)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дирѐкто̄ријум n, дирѐкто̄риј m, ката̀лог m
- Roman: dirèktōrijum n, dirèktōrij (sh) m, katàlog (sh) m
- Spanish: directorio (es)
- Swedish: mapp (sv) c
- Turkish: dizin (tr), klasör (tr)
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From Middle English directorye, from Latin dīrectōrius.
directory (not comparable)
- Containing directions; instructing; directorial.
