name and address

Questions about name and address

What does name and address mean?

name and address means "written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location".

What is another word for name and address?

Close synonyms include address, destination. 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 name and address a common word?

name and address is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.