director

Other forms of director

plural

directors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about director

What does director mean?

director means "someone who controls resources and expenditures". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in director?

director has 3 syllables: di-rec-tor. The stress falls on "rec". In IPA it is /dɚˈɛktɚ/.

What is another word for director?

Close synonyms include manager, managing director, theater director, theatre director, film director. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is director a common word?

director is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.