address
Meanings
- Direction.
- Guidance; help.
- A polite approach made to another person, especially of a romantic nature; an amorous advance.
- A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style.
- A formal approach to a sovereign or head of state, especially an official appeal or petition.
- A response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament.
- An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this.
- A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter.
- The location of a property.
- A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory.
- A string of characters identifying a node or range of nodes on a network (especially the Internet), such as an e-mail address, IP address or URL.
- Preparation.
- To prepare oneself.
- To direct speech.
- To aim; to direct.
- To prepare or make ready.
- To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
- To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
- To clothe or array; to dress.
- To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).
- To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to.
- To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
- To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
- To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Italic *dwizrektos Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti Proto-Italic *dwizregō Vulgar Latin dīrigō Vulgar Latin dīrēctus Proto-Indo-European *-yetider. Vulgar Latin -iāre Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre Old French drecier Old French adrecierbor. Middle English adressen English address From Middle English adressen (“to raise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from Proto-Romance *addīrēctiāre, from ad- (“to; towards”) + *dīrēctiāre (“to guide; to direct”), from Latin dīrēctus (“straight; right”), from dīrigō (“to lay straight; to direct”), itself from regō (“to govern, to rule”). Cognate with Spanish aderezar (“to garnish; dress (food); to add spices”).