director

English

Alternative forms

• directour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman directour, from Old French, from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/, IPA^(key): /daɪˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/, IPA^(key): /daɪ̯əˈɹɛktə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /dɪˈɹɛktɚ/, IPA^(key): /daɪˈɹɛktɚ/

Noun

director (plural directors)

1. 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).
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2. A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
3. That which directs or orientates something.
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4. (military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
5. (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.

Derived terms

• director circle
• director conic

Translations

supervisor, manager — see also film director

• Arabic: مُدِير m (mudīr), مُخْرِج m (muḵrij) (film)
• Armenian: տնօրեն (hy) (tnōren)
• Azerbaijani: rejissor (film, theatre)
• Belarusian: дырэ́ктар m (dyréktar), рэжысёр m (režysjór) (film)
• Bulgarian: ръководи́тел (bg) m (rǎkovodítel), дире́ктор (bg) (diréktor), режисьо́р m (režisjór) (film)
• Catalan: director (ca) m, directora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 經理／经理 (zh) (jīnglǐ), 经理 (zh) (jīnglǐ), (film) 導演／导演 (zh) (dǎoyǎn), 导演 (zh) (dǎoyǎn), 指揮／指挥 (zh) (zhǐhuī), 指挥 (zh) (zhǐhuī) (conductor), 指揮者／指挥者 (zh) (zhǐhuīzhě), 指挥者 (zh) (zhǐhuīzhě)

• Czech: ředitel (cs) m, režisér (cs) m (in film)
• Danish: direktør
• Dutch: directeur (nl) m or f, regisseur (nl) m
• Esperanto: direktoro, reĝisoro
• Finnish: johtaja (fi), (film director) ohjaaja (fi)
• French: directeur (fr) m, régisseur (fr) m (film)
• Galician: director m
• Georgian: დირექტორი (direkṭori), რეჟისორი (režisori)
• German: Direktor (de) m, Direktorin (de) f, Regisseur (de) m, Regisseurin (de) f (film)
• Greek: (film director) σκηνοθέτης (el) m (skinothétis), διευθυντής (el) m (diefthyntís)
• Hausa: darekta (ha)
• Hebrew: מנהל m (menahel), (manager) מנהלת f (menahelet), במאי (he) m (bamai), (in cinema or theater) במאית f (bamayt)
• Hungarian: igazgató (hu), rendező (hu), rektor (hu)
• Icelandic: leikstjóri m
• Indonesian: sutradara (id) (film), direktur (id)
• Irish: stiúrthóir m
• Italian: direttore (it) m, regista (it) m, capo (it) m
• Japanese: 監督 (ja) (かんとく, kantoku), 指揮者 (ja) (しきしゃ, shikisha) (conductor)
• Korean: 감독 (ko) (gamdok)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latvian: direktors m, direktore f
• Macedonian: директор m (direktor), режисер m (režiser) (film)
• Malay: pengarah, sutradara (in film making), direktur
• Maori: whakataka
• Norman: directeu m
• Norwegian: direktør (no)

  Bokmål: (film, theatre) regissør m

  Nynorsk: (film, theatre) regissør m

• Polish: dyrektor (pl) m, reżyser (pl) m (film)
• Portuguese: diretor (pt) m
• Romanian: director (ro) m, directoare (ro) f, regizor (ro) m (film)
• Russian: дире́ктор (ru) m (diréktor), режиссёр (ru) m (režissjór) (film), дирижёр (ru) m (dirižór) (conductor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: режисер m (film)

  Roman: reditelj (sh), upravitelj (sh), ravnatelj (sh) m, redatelj (sh) m, zborovodja (in a choir), režiser (sh) m (film)

• Slovak: riaditeľ m, režisér m (film), riaditeľka f, režisérka f (film)
• Slovene: direktor m, režiser (sl) m (film)
• Spanish: director (es) m, directora (es) f
• Swahili: mkurugenzi (sw)
• Swedish: regissör (sv) c (movie/theater/show), chef (sv) c, direktör (sv) c
• Turkish: yönetmen (tr)
• Ukrainian: дире́ктор m (dyréktor), режисе́р m (režysér) (film)
• Vietnamese: quản đốc (vi)
• Volapük: dilekan (vo)

device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system

• Irish: diúracóir m
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someone who directs

• Maori: ringatohu
• Ojibwe: odaake-ogimaa
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• Spanish: director (es)

Anagrams

• creditor

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

Noun

director m (plural directors, feminine directora)

1. director
2. conductor
3. headteacher, principal

Related terms

• direcció
• dirigir
• directe

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Portuguese

Adjective

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Noun

director m (plural es, feminine directora, feminine plural directoras)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

Noun

director m (plural directores, feminine directora, feminine plural directoras)

1. director
2. conductor (of musical ensembles)

Related terms

• directora
• dirección
• dirigir
• directo