directory

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A book or list of names, addresses, and other details, usually in alphabetical order.

   I looked up her number in the telephone directory.

2. 2
   noun

   A named place in a computer's file system where files and other folders are stored.

   Save the document in the project directory on your hard drive.

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.

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