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# address

«address» in Mova's school dictionary: **The details of where a person lives or a building is:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an address, addresses); verb (address, addresses, addressed, addressing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The details of where a person lives or a building is: house number, street, town, postcode or ZIP code. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#m1)

2) An email or website address. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#m2)

3) A formal speech: an address to the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#m3)

4) Verb: to write an address on a letter or parcel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#m4)

5) Verb: to speak to someone or a group: «address the class». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#m5)

6) Verb: to deal with a problem: «address the issue». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In safety lessons: learn your own address and a parent's phone number in case you get lost; but never give your address to strangers or post it online. In writing lessons: address a letter or envelope. In manners: how to address adults (Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Sir, Miss). Phrases: home address, email address, address book, change of address, address someone as, keynote address.

### examples

- Do you know your home address? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#x1)
- Write the address on the envelope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#x2)
- Never share your address online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#x3)
- What's your email address? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#x4)
- The head teacher addressed the whole school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#x5)
- Address your teacher as Mr Smith or Ms Jones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#x6)
- We moved house, so we have a new address. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#x7)
- The president gave an address on TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#x8)
- When they were alone, Scheherazade addressed her thus: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/#x9)

### note

Double d and double s: «address». Plural: addresses. Stress: noun is often «a-DRESS» (UK) or «AD-ress» (US), verb is «a-DRESS». Your address is private information, like your password.

### In the corpora

- [Never share your full name, address or school with a bot or an app.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/12-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie/8/)
- [Bots can invent phone numbers and addresses that belong to nobody, or to a stranger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/14/)
- [You keep people's personal details, such as addresses, private, and politely explain why you won't share them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/15/)
- [In Liverpool "boss" means great; in the East Midlands "me duck" is a friendly way to address someone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/17/)
- [Know your parent's phone number and your address by heart, so that a helper can call your family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «address» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/address/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.