address
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Is address a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of address?
Definition
noun (English)
1. Direction.obsolete
2. Direction.Examples: "[H]e was thus agreeable, and I neither insensible of his Perfections, nor displeased at his Addresses to me […]."archaicin-plural
3. Direction.
4. Direction.Commonwealth
5. Direction.Examples: "The program will crash if there is no valid data stored at that address."
6. Direction.Synonyms: network addressInternet
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.Examples: "Let us address to tend on Hector's heels."intransitiveobsolete
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.Examples: "Young Turnus to the Beaubteous Maid addreſs’d."intransitiveobsolete
3. (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.Examples: "And this good knight his way with me addrest."obsoletetransitive
4. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.Examples: "His foe was soone addrest."; "Then Turnus, from his chariot, leaping light, Addreſs’d himſelf on foot to ſingle fight."; "The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming."obsoletetransitive
5. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.Examples: "These men addressed themselves to the task."; "[…] good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner."reflexivetransitive
6. (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).Examples: "1701, Thomas Brown, Laconics, or New Maxims of State and Conversation, London: Thomas Hodgson, section 76, p. 103, In the Reign of King Charles the Second, a certain Worthy Divine at Whitehall, thus Address’d himself to the Auditory at the conclusion of his Sermon."; "There were ſeveral of his Prieſts and Lawyers preſent, (as I conjectured by their habits) who were commanded to addreſs themſelves to me, and I ſpoke to them in as many Languages as I had the leaſt ſmattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spaniſh, Italian, and Lingua Franca; but all to no purpoſe."; "He addressed himself directly to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation […]"reflexive
Definition source: Wiktionary