Address

Etymology
From, from (modern 🇨🇬), from  (from ) +  (modern 🇨🇬) < , from , from the verb , itself from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * Noun:
 * Verb:
 * Verb:

Noun

 * 1) Direction.
 * 2)  Guidance; help.
 * 3)  A polite approach made to another person, especially of a romantic nature; an amorous advance.
 * 4) * 1723,, The Lover and Reader, page 115:
 * [H]e was thus agreeable, and I neither insensible of his Perfections, nor displeased at his Addresses to me.
 * 1) A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style.
 * 2) A formal approach to a sovereign, especially an official appeal or petition; later  a response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament.
 * 3) An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this.
 * 4) * 1887,, A Study in Scarlet, VII:
 * Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no longer.
 * 1) A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter.
 * 2)  The property itself.
 * 3)  A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory; a string of characters identifying a location on the internet or other network; sometimes  an e-mail address.
 * 4) Preparation.
 * 5)  Preparedness for some task; resourcefulness; skill, ability.
 * 6) *1789,, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 129:
 * The warmth of Father Pedro's constitution had formerly drawn him into some scrapes from which it required all his address to disengage himself, and rendered him exceedingly cautious ever after.
 * 1) * 1813, "Customs, Manners, and present Appearance of Constantinople", The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the year 1812, p. 179 (Google preview):
 * At their turning-lathes, they employ their toes to guide the chisel; and, in these pedipulations, shew to Europeans a diverting degree of address.
 * 1)  The act of getting ready; preparation.
 * 2) *1671,, Samson Agonistes:
 * But now again she makes address to speak.
 * 1)  The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging.
 * At their turning-lathes, they employ their toes to guide the chisel; and, in these pedipulations, shew to Europeans a diverting degree of address.
 * 1)  The act of getting ready; preparation.
 * 2) *1671,, Samson Agonistes:
 * But now again she makes address to speak.
 * 1)  The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: አድራሻ
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: عنوان
 * Moroccan Arabic: عنوان
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: direición, dirección
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: адрес
 * Basque: helbide
 * Belarusian: а́дрэс, а́драс
 * Bengali: ঠিকানা
 * Bole: adireshi
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: လိပ်စာ
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 地址
 * Dungan: дизы
 * Hakka: 地址
 * Mandarin:
 * Min Dong: 地址
 * Min Nan:
 * Wu: 地址
 * Chukchi: нымытван
 * Cornish: trigva
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: adreso
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: bústaður
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მისამართი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: adrès
 * Hausa:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: viðfang
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingue: adresse
 * Irish: seoladh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 宛名
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino: aderesso
 * Lao: ທີ່ຢູ່


 * Latvian: adrese
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya: enamba, enamba ya posta
 * Macedonian: адре́са
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: alamat
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: kāinga noho, wāhi noho
 * Mongolian:
 * Moore: belem zĩiga, aderse
 * Norman: adresse
 * North Frisian: önjschraft, adräs;  uunskraft, adres
 * Northern Sami: čujuhus
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Oriya:
 * Pashto: آدرس,
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Adrass
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: адреса, наслов
 * Roman: ,
 * Sinhalese: ලිපිනය, ඇඩ්‍රස් එක
 * Slovak: adresa
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: adresa
 * Upper Sorbian: adresa
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: padalahan
 * Tajik: адрес, сурога, нишони
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཁ་བྱང
 * Tigrinya: ኣድራሻ
 * Tok Pisin: adres
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: پتہ
 * Uyghur: ئادرېس
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yiddish: אַדרעס
 * Zhuang: diegyouq


 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: зваро́т, прамо́ва, звярта́нне
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: მიმართვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πρόσρημα
 * Hebrew: פנייה
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Latin: alloquium


 * Macedonian: обраќање
 * Malay: alamat
 * Maltese: diskors,
 * Oriya: ସମ୍ବୋଧନ
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: adresare,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సంభోధన
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: зве́рнення
 * Yiddish: אַדרעס


 * Finnish: puhetapa, ulosanti
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian: ословување
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: уха́жване
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Russian:
 * Turkish:, ,


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:, , , gyakorlottság, , ,
 * Romanian: îdemânare, ,
 * Russian:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Finnish: valmistautuminen


 * French:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Adrass
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Tagalog: padalahan


 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Bashkir: адрес
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:, memóriacím
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Maori: wāhitau
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: padalahan


 * Bashkir: адрес
 * Finnish:, URL-osoite
 * French:
 * Georgian: მისამართი, ბმული


 * Hungarian:, internetcím, webcím
 * Kazakh:
 * Persian: نشانی اینترنتی
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Tagalog: padalahan


 * Dutch:
 * German: ,


 * Macedonian: обраќање
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To prepare oneself.
 * 2)  To direct speech.
 * Young Turnus to the Beauteous Maid addreſs’d.
 * 1)  To aim; to direct.
 * 2) * 1590,, , Book I Canto X:
 * And this good knight his way with me addrest.
 * 1)  To prepare or make ready.
 * Then Turnus, from his chariot, leaping light, Addreſs’d himſelf on foot to ſingle fight.
 * 1) * 1649,, The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life According to the Christian Institution
 * The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming.
 * 1)  To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
 * 2) * 1851,, , chapter 3
 * good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.
 * 1)  To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 1813,, , Volume I, Chapter 11,
 * He addressed himself directly to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation
 * 1) * 1876,, , Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., p. 66, Article V, Section 34,
 * When any member is about to speak in debate, he shall rise and respectfully address himself to “Mr. Chairman.”
 * 1)  To clothe or array; to dress.
 * 2)   To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).
 * though the young Heroe had addreſs’d his Prayers to him for his aſſiſtance
 * 1)  To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to.
 * Are not your orders to address the senate?
 * The representatives of the nation in parliament, and the privy council, address the king
 * 1) * 1989,, : 
 * Rimmer paused for no discernible reason, then yelled, equally inexplicably: 'Shut up!', wheeled round 180º, and appeared to be addressing a dartboard.
 * 1)  To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
 * 2)  To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
 * 3)  To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
 * 4)  To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech or discourse to.
 * 5)  To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
 * 6)  To refer to a location in computer memory.
 * 7)  To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).
 * The representatives of the nation in parliament, and the privy council, address the king
 * 1) * 1989,, : 
 * Rimmer paused for no discernible reason, then yelled, equally inexplicably: 'Shut up!', wheeled round 180º, and appeared to be addressing a dartboard.
 * 1)  To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
 * 2)  To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
 * 3)  To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
 * 4)  To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech or discourse to.
 * 5)  To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
 * 6)  To refer to a location in computer memory.
 * 7)  To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).
 * 1)  To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech or discourse to.
 * 2)  To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
 * 3)  To refer to a location in computer memory.
 * 4)  To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).
 * 1)  To refer to a location in computer memory.
 * 2)  To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).
 * 1)  To refer to a location in computer memory.
 * 2)  To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).

Usage notes

 * The intransitive uses can be understood as omission of the reflexive pronoun.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Latin:, affor


 * Romanian:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მიმართავს
 * German:


 * Latin:, affor
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Latin:, affor
 * Persian: مورد ملاحظه قرار دادن


 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Persian:


 * Romanian:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: заемам се
 * Finnish:
 * German: sich vorbereiten
 * Hungarian:, , , nekikezd


 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: kendini hazırlamak


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Latin:
 * Romanian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: alparoli, adresi
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:, , aposztrofál


 * Italian:
 * Latin:, affor
 * Macedonian: упатува
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,


 * Belarusian: звярта́цца, звярну́цца
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Italian:


 * Latin:, affor
 * Macedonian: упатува
 * Ngazidja Comorian: rongoza
 * Russian: ,
 * Ukrainian: зверта́тися, зверну́тися
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: adresi
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, megcímez
 * Latin:, affor
 * Macedonian: адреси́ра


 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: adresěrowaś
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Persian: خواستگاری کردن
 * Romanian: face curte
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: antaa jonkun huostaan, jättää jonkun haltuun


 * Hungarian:
 * Romanian:


 * Finnish:, ,


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:, ,


 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hungarian:, megcímez
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish:


 * Norman:

Noun

 * 1) an

Verb

 * 1) to