address
- Top 1000
Sense 1
- noun
- A1
The details of the place where someone lives or where post should be sent, usually the street, number, town and code.
Could you write your address at the bottom of the form?
They moved last spring, so I have the wrong address.
The driver typed the address into his phone before starting.
Common collocations: home address · email address · postal address · change of address · a forwarding address
Part of: The post office, Directions, Phone and internet, Writing
Sense 2 · less common
- verb
- B1
To write on a letter or parcel the name and place details of the person it should go to.
Address the parcel clearly so it does not get lost.
She addressed the card to her aunt living in Canada.
All the invitations were addressed by hand on Sunday evening.
Common collocations: address an envelope · address a parcel · addressed to · wrongly addressed
Part of: The post office, Writing
Forms
- plural
- addresses
- third_person
- addresses