address
/əˈdɹɛs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.91 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
Example Sentences
- "[H]e was thus agreeable, and I neither insensible of his Perfections, nor displeased at his Addresses to me […]."
- "a man of pleasing or insinuating address"
- "Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no longer."
- "I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address."
- "Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much."
- "The President's address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dīs- Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós Proto-Italic *rektos Latin rēctus Latin dīrēctus Proto-Indo-European *-yetider. 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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₃reǵ-, adressen, adrecier, *addīrēctiāre, dīrēctus