directory

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directory (plural directories)

A typical icon of a directory (3)

A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.
Hypernyms: list, reference work

Hyponym: telephone directory

look up an address in the directory
(computing) A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.
(computing) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other directories may be stored. The files and subdirectories in a directory are usually related.
Synonym: folder

Hyponyms: home directory, subdirectory

Coordinate terms: label, pseudodirectory, tag

list of names, addresses etc.

Bulgarian: указа́тел (bg) m (ukazátel)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 名錄／名录 (zh) (mínglù), 簿 (zh) (bù)
Czech: adresář (cs) m
Dutch: (usually with an adjective to distinguish it from a tourist guide) gids (nl) m, repertorium (nl) n, telefoongids (nl), Gouden gids, Witte gids
Esperanto: telefonlibro
Finnish: hakemisto (fi)
French: annuaire (fr)
German: Verzeichnis (de) n
Greek: κατάλογος (el) m (katálogos)
Hungarian: címtár (hu)
Icelandic: efnisskrá (is) f
Indonesian: direktori
Italian: elenco (it) m, lista (it) f
Japanese: 一覧 (ja) (いちらん, ichiran), 名鑑 (ja) (めいかん, meikan)
Kazakh: анықтамалық (anyqtamalyq)
Macedonian: и́меник m (ímenik), а́дресар m (ádresar)
Portuguese: diretório (pt) m (Portugal), diretoria (pt) f (Brazil)
Russian: указа́тель (ru) m (ukazátelʹ), пе́речень (ru) m (pérečenʹ), катало́г (ru) m (katalóg), спра́вочник (ru) m (správočnik)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: и̏менӣк m

Roman: ȉmenīk (sh) m
Spanish: directorio (es) m
Swedish: katalog (sv) c
Tagalog: talahanapan
Welsh: cyfarwyddiadur m, cyfeiriadur m

structured listing of files

Belarusian: па́пка (be) f (pápka), катало́г m (katalóh), дырэкто́рыя f (dyrektóryja)
Bulgarian: директо́рия (bg) f (direktórija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 目錄／目录 (zh) (mùlù)
Czech: adresář (cs) m
Dutch: lijst (nl) f
Esperanto: katalogo
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: hakemisto (fi)
French: dossier (fr) m, répertoire (fr) m
German: Ordner (de) m, Verzeichnis (de) n
Greek: κατάλογος (el) m (katálogos)
Hindi: डायरेक्टरी (ḍāyrekṭarī)
Hungarian: könyvtárlista, mappalista
Indonesian: direktori
Italian: cartella (it) f, directory (it) f (programming)
Japanese: ディレクトリ (ja) (direkutori), フォルダ (ja) (foruda)
Korean: 디렉토리 (ko) (direktori), 폴더 (poldeo)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: ка́талог m (kátalog), па́пка f (pápka)
Malay: direktori
Maori: whaiaronga
Persian: دایرکتوری (dâyrektori)
Polish: katalog (pl) m
Russian: катало́г (ru) m (katalóg), па́пка (ru) f (pápka), директо́рия (ru) f (direktórija)
Slovak: adresár (sk) m
Swedish: katalog (sv) c
Thai: ไดเรกทอรี
Turkish: dizin (tr), klasör (tr)
Ukrainian: па́пка f (pápka), катало́г (uk) m (katalóh), директо́рія f (dyrektórija)

simulated folder

directory (not comparable)