English noun: director |
| 1. | director (person) someone who controls resources and expenditures |
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| Synonyms | manager, managing director |
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| Broader (hypernym) | administrator, decision maker |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bank manager, district manager, manageress |
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| 2. | director (person) member of a board of directors |
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| Broader (hypernym) | committee member |
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| Member meronym | board |
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| 3. | director (person) someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show |
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| Synonyms | theater director, theatre director |
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| Broader (hypernym) | supervisor |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | stage director |
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| Instance hyponym | Elia Kazan, Elia Kazanjoglous, Granville-Barker, Harley Granville-Barker, Kazan, Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev, Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Stanislavsky |
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| 4. | director (person) the person who directs the making of a film |
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| Synonyms | film director |
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| Broader (hypernym) | film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker |
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| Instance hyponym | Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Bergman, Bunuel, Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, Israel Strassberg, Lee Strasberg, Luis Bunuel, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Strasberg |
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| 5. | director (person) the person who leads a musical group |
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| Synonyms | conductor, music director |
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| Broader (hypernym) | musician |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bandleader, bandmaster, drum major, drum majorette, majorette |
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| Instance hyponym | Arthur Fiedler, Arturo Toscanini, Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, Benjamin Britten, Bernstein, Britten, Bruno Walter, Carl Maria von Weber, Constant Lambert, Edward Benjamin Britten, Eugene Ormandy, Fiedler, George Szell, Gustav Mahler, Hindemith, Koussevitzky, Lambert, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Constant Lambert, Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski, Leopold Stokowski, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh, Mahler, Ormandy, Ozawa, Paul Hindemith, Seiji Ozawa, Serge Koussevitzky, Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky, Sir Henry Joseph Wood, Sir Henry Wood, Stokowski, Szell, Toscanini, Walter, Weber, Wood |
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