director

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English

Alternative forms

• directour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman directour, from Old French, from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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).
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2. A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
3. That which directs or orientates something.
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4. (military) A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
5. (chemistry) The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.

Derived terms

• director circle
• director conic

Translations

supervisor, manager — See also translations at film director

• Arabic: مُدِير‎ m (mudīr), مُخْرِج‎ m (muḵrij) (film)
• Armenian: տնօրեն (hy) (tnōren)
• Azerbaijani: rejissor (film, theatre)
• Belarusian: дырэ́ктар m (dyréktar), рэжысёр m (režysjór) (film)
• Bulgarian: ръководи́тел (bg) m (rǎkovodítel), дире́ктор (bg) (diréktor), режисьо́р m (režisjór) (film)
• Catalan: director (ca) m, directora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 經理 (zh), 经理 (zh) (jīnglǐ), (film) 導演 (zh), 导演 (zh) (dǎoyǎn), 指揮 (zh), 指挥 (zh) (zhǐhuī) (conductor), 指揮者 (zh), 指挥者 (zh) (zhǐhuīzhě)

• Czech: ředitel (cs) m, režisér (cs) m (in film)
• Danish: direktør
• Dutch: directeur (nl) m or f, regisseur (nl) m
• Esperanto: direktoro, reĝisoro
• Finnish: johtaja (fi), (film director) ohjaaja (fi)
• French: directeur (fr) m, régisseur (fr) m (film)
• Galician: director m
• Georgian: დირექტორი (direkṭori), რეჟისორი (režisori)
• German: Direktor (de) m, Direktorin (de) f, Regisseur (de) m, Regisseurin (de) f (film)
• Greek: (film director) σκηνοθέτης (el) m (skinothétis), διευθυντής (el) m (diefthyntís)
• Hausa: darekta (ha)
• Hebrew: מנהל‎ m (menahel), (manager) מנהלת‎ f (menahelet), במאי‎ (he) m (bamai), (in cinema or theater) במאית‎ f (bamayt)
• Hungarian: igazgató (hu), rendező (hu), rektor (hu)
• Icelandic: leikstjóri m
• Indonesian: sutradara (id) (film), direktur (id)
• Irish: stiúrthóir m
• Italian: direttore (it) m, regista (it) m, capo (it) m
• Japanese: 監督 (ja) (かんとく, kantoku), 指揮者 (ja) (しきしゃ, shikisha) (conductor)
• Korean: 감독 (ko) (gamdok)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کاربه‌ده‌ست‎ (ku) (karbedest)

• Latvian: direktors m, direktore f
• Macedonian: директор m (direktor), режисер m (režiser) (film)
• Malay: pengarah, sutradara (in film making), direktur
• Maori: whakataka
• Norman: directeu m
• Norwegian: direktør (no)

  Bokmål: (film, theatre) regissør m

  Nynorsk: (film, theatre) regissør m

• Polish: dyrektor (pl) m, reżyser (pl) m (film)
• Portuguese: diretor (pt) m
• Romanian: director (ro) m, directoare (ro) f, regizor (ro) m (film)
• Russian: дире́ктор (ru) m (diréktor), режиссёр (ru) m (režissjór) (film), дирижёр (ru) m (dirižór) (conductor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: режисер m (film)

  Roman: reditelj (sh), upravitelj (sh), ravnatelj (sh) m, redatelj (sh) m, zborovodja (in a choir), režiser (sh) m (film)

• Slovak: riaditeľ m, režisér m (film)
• Slovene: direktor m, režiser (sl) m (film)
• Spanish: director (es) m, directora (es) f
• Swahili: mkurugenzi (sw)
• Swedish: regissör (sv) c (movie/theater/show), chef (sv) c, direktör (sv) c
• Turkish: yönetmen (tr)
• Ukrainian: дире́ктор m (dyréktor), режисе́р m (režysér) (film)
• Vietnamese: quản đốc (vi)
• Volapük: dilekan (vo)

device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system

• Irish: diúracóir m

someone who directs

• Ojibwe: odaake-ogimaa

• Spanish: director (es)

Anagrams

• creditor

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

Noun

director m (plural directors, feminine directora)

1. director
2. conductor
3. headteacher, principal

Related terms

• direcció
• dirigir
• directe

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Portuguese

Adjective

director m (feminine singular directora, masculine plural directores, feminine plural directoras, comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of diretor (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform, and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect, and as an alternative spelling in Portugal, where the agreement came into effect in May 2009.)

Noun

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

1. Alternative spelling of diretor (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform, and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect, and as an alternative spelling in Portugal, where the agreement came into effect in May 2009.)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin director, directorem, from Latin directus.

Noun

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

1. director
2. conductor (of musical ensembles)

Related terms

• directora
• dirección
• dirigir
• directo