DIRECTORY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DIRECTORY?

Need another word that means the same as “directory”? Find 8 synonyms and 30 related words for “directory” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Directory” are: index, list, listing, register, catalogue, record, archive, inventory

Directory as a Noun

Definitions of "Directory" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “directory” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A book or website listing individuals or organizations alphabetically or thematically with details such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
• A board in an organization or large store listing names and locations of departments, individuals, etc.
• An alphabetical list of names and addresses.
• The revolutionary government in France 1795–9, comprising two councils and a five-member executive. It maintained an aggressive foreign policy, but could not control events at home and was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte.
• A book of directions for the conduct of Christian worship, especially in Presbyterian and Roman Catholic Churches.
• A file which consists solely of a set of other files (which may themselves be directories).
• (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk.
• A listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk.

Synonyms of "Directory" as a noun (8 Words)

archive	A depository containing historical records and documents. A section of archive film.
catalogue	A publication containing details of items for sale, especially one produced by a mail-order company. A computerized library catalogue.
index	A pointer on an instrument, showing a quantity, a position on a scale, etc. The hundred shares index closed down 9 3.
inventory	(accounting) the value of a firm’s current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods. An inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing.
list	A formal structure analogous to a list by which items of data can be stored or processed in a definite order. The ship developed a list to starboard.
listing	The drawing up of a list.
record	Anything such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph providing permanent evidence of or information about past events. Record profits.
register	A cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions used in shops to add up the bill. A membership register.

Associations of "Directory" (30 Words)

annotate	Provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases. The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel.
bookmark	A marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader’s place. Fans will want to bookmark this site.
brochure	A small book or magazine containing pictures and information about a product or service. A holiday brochure.
checklist	A list of items required, things to be done, or points to be considered, used as a reminder.
compile	Accumulate (a specified score. The local authority must compile a list of the names and addresses of taxpayers.
data	Things known or assumed as facts, making the basis of reasoning or calculation. There is very little data available.
datum	A fixed starting point of a scale or operation. An accurate datum is formed by which other machining operations can be carried out.
descriptive	Serving to describe or inform or characterized by description. The text contains some good descriptive passages.
desktop	The working area of a computer screen regarded as a representation of a notional desktop and containing icons representing items such as files. You can now have multiple overlapping windows on the desktop.
disk	Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove. The moon s disk hung in a cloudless sky.
dossier	A collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person’s record. We have a dossier on him.
edition	A particular version of a text maintained by regular revision. He read it in yesterday s edition of the Times.
file	File a formal charge against. File for divorce.
folder	A folded leaflet or a booklet made of folded sheets of paper.
guide	Use as a guide. They had the lights to guide on.
handbook	A concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location. A handbook of poisonous plants.
index	Link the value of prices wages or other payments automatically to the value of a price index. The Supreme Soviet passed legislation indexing wages to prices.
information	In information theory a mathematical quantity expressing the probability of occurrence of a particular sequence of symbols impulses etc as against that of alternative sequences. Genetically transmitted information.
instructions	A manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it.
item	Also Philip Guedalla used when listing or enumerating items. An item of clothing.
leaflet	Distribute leaflets to people or an area. Tourists visiting the area are being leafleted.
listing	A database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics.
pamphlet	Distribute pamphlets to. He published a spate of pamphlets on the subjects about which he felt strongly.
peruse	Examine carefully or at length. Laura perused a Caravaggio.
prospectus	A formal written offer to sell securities (filed with the SEC) that sets forth a plan for a (proposed) business enterprise. A prospectus should contain the facts that an investor needs to make an informed decision.
register	A cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions used in shops to add up the bill. At the store s bridal registry single people can register for gifts even if they are not getting married.
sampling	Measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form. Routine river sampling is carried out according to a schedule.
studying	Reading carefully with intent to remember.
text	A textbook. Too much concentration on set texts can turn pupils against reading.
transcribe	Arrange (a piece of music) for a different instrument, voice, or group of these. Polymerases transcribe it into a long RNA molecule.