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# director

«director» in Mova's school dictionary: **the person in charge of making a film, play or TV…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a director, directors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A director is the person in charge of making a film, play or TV programme who tells the actors and crew what to do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#m1)

2) A director is one of the people who run a company or a large organisation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#m2)

3) A director is the head of a department or project: "the museum director", "the director of music". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and media lessons, the director decides how a film or play looks. In everyday life companies have a board of directors. In school, a "funeral director" is a polite name for an undertaker. Phrases: film director, managing director, board of directors, director of studies, funeral director.

### examples

- The director shouted "Action!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x1)
- Our music teacher is the director of the school choir. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x2)
- Steven Spielberg is a famous film director. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x3)
- The company has five directors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x4)
- The museum director showed us the dinosaur bones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x5)
- The funeral director arranged everything kindly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x6)
- She wants to be a theatre director when she grows up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x7)
- He was a director of a theatre, a manager of masked balls, and a leader of all the amusements we can imagine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x8)

### note

Countable: a director, directors. Ends in -or, not -er. Related: direct, direction. In the UK "managing director" is the boss of a company; in the USA they often say "CEO".

### In the corpora

- [After a show the director gives praise and notes, small changes to make it better next time; good work can still improve.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/28-the-school-play-auditions-lines-stage-fright/13/)
- ["Funeral director" is the official name for an undertaker, the person who arranges funerals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/12/)
- [Pallbearers carry the coffin; they may be family, friends or people who work for the funeral director.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/62-the-church-funeral/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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