directory

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Di=rec=to=ry

OXFORD DICTIONARY

directory, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a book listing alphabetically or thematically a particular group of individuals (e.g. telephone subscribers) or organizations with various details.
2 (Directory) hist. the revolutionary executive of five persons in power in France 1795-9.
3 a book of rules, esp. for the order of private or public worship.

Etymology

LL directorium (as DIRECT)

THESAURUS

directory

Almanach de Gotha, Baedeker, British Cabinet, Red Book, Royal Kalendar, Sanhedrin, Social Register, US Cabinet, Yellow Pages, account, acquaintance, advisory body, announcement, assembly, association, atlas, bench, bibliography, blue book, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, briefing, bulletin, business directory, cabinet, cadre, calendar, camarilla, casebook, catalog, catalogue raisonne, chamber, checklist, city council, city directory, classified catalog, classified directory, common council, communication, communique, concordance, conference, congress, consultative assembly, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, cyclopedia, data, datum, deliberative assembly, diatesseron, dictionary catalog, diet, directorate, dispatch, divan, encyclopedia, enlightenment, evidence, executive arm, executive committee, executive hierarchy, facts, factual information, familiarization, finding list, gazetteer, gen, genealogy, general information, governing board, governing body, guidebook, handbook, handlist, handout, hard information, harmony, incidental information, index, info, information, infrastructure, instruction, intelligence, interlocking directorate, itinerary, junta, kitchen cabinet, knowledge, legislature, light, management, mention, message, notice, notification, parish council, pedigree, phone book, polyglot, presentation, privy council, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, record book, reference book, release, report, road map, roadbook, sidelight, source book, soviet, staff, statement, steering committee, studbook, syndicate, synod, telephone book, telephone directory, the administration, the brass, the dope, the executive, the goods, the know, the people upstairs, the scoop, top brass, transmission, tribunal, white book, white paper, word, work of reference

ROGET THESAURUS

directory

Council

N council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, Amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, M, P, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder, senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative.

List

N list, catalog, catalogue, inventory, register, account, bill, bill of costs, terrier, tally, listing, itemization, atlas, book, ledger, catalogue raisonne, tableau, invoice, bill of lading, prospectus, bill of fare, menu, carte, score, census, statistics, returns, contents, table of contents, outline, synopsis, checklist, table, chart, database, index, inverted file, word list, concordance, dictionary, lexicon, vocabulary, glossary, thesaurus, file, card index, card file, rolodex, address book, Red book, Blue book, Domesday book, cadastre, directory, gazetter, almanac, army list, clergy list, civil service list, navy list, Almanach de Gotha, cadaster, Lloyd's register, nautical almanac, who's who, Guiness's Book of World Records, roll, check roll, checker roll, bead roll, muster roll, muster book, roster, panel, jury list, cartulary, diptych, cadastral.