Usually means: Guidance or course toward goal.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word direction:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. direction: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. direction, direction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. direction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. direction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. direction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Direction, direction: Wordnik
  7. direction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. direction: Wiktionary
  9. direction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. direction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. direction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Direction, direction: Dictionary.com
  13. direction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Direction (Slovakia), Direction (album), Direction (disambiguation), Direction (geometry), Direction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Direction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. direction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. direction: Rhymezone
  18. direction, direction (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. direction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. direction: Free Dictionary
  21. direction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. direction: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. direction: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. direction: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. direction: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Direction (disambiguation), direction: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Direction (Alexander Technique), Direction (disambiguation), direction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Direction (Alexander Technique), Direction (disambiguation), Direction: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. direction: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Direction: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. direction: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. direction: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

(Note: See directionless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).
noun:  A general trend for future action.
noun:  Guidance, instruction.
noun:  The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
noun:  (dated) The body of persons who guide or manage a matter; the directorate.
noun:  (archaic) A person's address.

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