address – English noun declension

English noun forms of address

Noun: address
Singularaddress
Pluraladdresses

Sample Sentences

  • [H]e was thus agreeable, and I neither insensible of his Perfections, nor displeased at his Addresses to me […]. [1723, Richard Steele, The Lover and Reader, page 115:]
  • a man of pleasing or insinuating address
  • Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no longer. [1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section VII:]
  • I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address. [1889, Margaret Oliphant, The Portrait:]
  • Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much. [2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:]
  • The President's address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
  • I went to his address but there was nobody there.
  • The program will crash if there is no valid data stored at that address.
  • This is one bad effect of a good Character—it invites applications from the unfortunate and there needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of Benevolence without incurring the expence.— [1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.i:]
  • The warmth of Father Pedro's constitution had formerly drawn him into some scrapes from which it required all his address to disengage himself, and rendered him exceedingly cautious ever after. [1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 129:]
  • At their turning-lathes, they employ their toes to guide the chisel; and, in these pedipulations, shew to Europeans a diverting degree of address. [1813, “Customs, Manners, and present Appearance of Constantinople”, in The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the year 1812, page 179:]
  • But now again she makes address to speak. [1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-
6. Old French a-
7. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
8. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
9. Proto-Italic *dis-
10. Latin dīs-
11. Latin rēctus
12. Latin dīrēctus
13. Proto-Indo-European *-yetider.
14. Latin -iāre
15. Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre
16. Old French drecier
17. Old French adrecierbor.
18. Middle English adressen
19. English address
20. From Middle English adressen (“to raise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from Proto-Romance *addīrēctiāre, from ad- (“to; towards”) + *dīrēctiāre (“to guide; to direct”), from Latin dīrēctus (“straight; right”), from dīrigō (“to lay straight; to direct”), itself from regō (“to govern, to rule”). Cognate with Spanish aderezar (“to garnish; dress (food); to add spices”). See: Latin Nouns 'dīrēctus'.

Verbs referencing "address"

Galician Nouns aderezo, Spanish Nouns aderezo, Italian Nouns adressario.