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• directour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle French directeur and its source Late Latin dīrēctor, dīrēctōrem, from Latin dīrēctus.

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

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• Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)

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).
   • 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎, archived from the original on 7 February 2019:

     Francis Gurry is director of WIPO.

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2. A member of a board of directors.
   • [...] the confusion between directors who know nothing and managers who know everything [...].- Anthony Trollope: Phineas Redux (1873), Chapter 60 ("Two Days before the Trial")
3. A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
4. That which directs or orientates something.
   • 1971, United States. Office of Saline Water, Distillation Digest, volume 3, page 76:

     Installed longer flow director; it now just covers the entire diameter of the 6-in. brine return nozzle, and is 4 in. high […]

5. (military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
6. (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.

• creditor

Borrowed from Late Latin dīrēctōrem, from Latin dīrēctus. First attested in 1696.^[1]

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• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

director (feminine directora, masculine plural directors, feminine plural directores)

1. guiding, regulating, directing

director m (plural directors, feminine directora)

1. director
2. conductor
3. headteacher, principal

• “director” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “director” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “director” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Late Latin dīrēctōrem.

• IPA^(key): /diɾɛkˈtoɾ/
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: di‧rec‧tor

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

1. director

• “director”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

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

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of diretor. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

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

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of diretor. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Borrowed from French directeur.

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director m (plural directori)

1. director
2. principal

   Profesorul este cu directorul.

   The teacher is with the school principal.

Borrowed from Late Latin dīrēctōrem, from Latin dīrēctus.

• IPA^(key): /diɾeɡˈtoɾ/
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: di‧rec‧tor

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

1. director
2. conductor (of musical ensembles)
3. (school) principal, headmaster
4. editor (person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish)

   Synonym: editor

• “director”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10