return address

1. 1.

   the address of the sender of a letter or parcel indicating where it should be returned if it cannot be delivered

   Broaderaddress

Questions about return address

What does return address mean?

return address means "the address of the sender of a letter or parcel indicating where it should be returned if it cannot be delivered".

Is return address a common word?

return 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.