From Old French, from Latin _dīrēctiō_.

* (UK, US) IPA(key): /dəˈɹɛk.ʃən/, /dɪˈɹɛk.ʃən/, /daɪˈɹɛk.ʃən/ * Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

DIRECTION (_plural_ DIRECTIONS) * The action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards. _What DIRECTION is the railway station?_ * 1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, _Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1_, pp.284-5 Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any DIRECTION. * Guidance, instruction. _The trombonist looked to the bandleader for DIRECTION._ * The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc. _The screenplay was good, but the DIRECTION was weak._ * (archaic) An address. * 1796, Matthew Lewis, _The Monk_, Folio Society 1985, p. 218: Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her DIRECTION. * The path or course of a given movement, or moving body; an indication of the point toward or from which an object is moving. _Keep going in the same DIRECTION._ * 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, _The House Behind the Cedars_, Chapter I, Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this DIRECTION. RELATED TERMS * direct * directions * director * directive * misdirection * redirection * under the direction of TRANSLATIONS

* cretinoid

From Latin _directio_, _directionem_.

DIRECTION

* “direction” in _le Trésor de la langue française informatisé_ (_The Digitized Treasury of the French Language_).