Standard Lemma guide

directorship

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

CMU ARPABET: D ER0 EH1 K T ER0 SH IH2 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
CMU ARPABET 2: D AY0 R EH1 K T ER0 SH IH2 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
CMU ARPABET 3: D IY0 R EH1 K T ER0 SH IH2 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
CMU ARPABET 4: D IH0 R EH1 K T ER0 SH IH2 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

noun

Meaning 1

The office of a director.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

Near-synonym: directorate (sometimes synonymous)
The corporate bylaws require a quorum of outside directors, so as to balance the directorship.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: directorate

Antonyms: none provided

noun

Meaning 2

the position of a director of a business concern

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English director Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English directorship From director + -ship.

Across languages

Translations

1 source translations are retained for this English entry.

Italian: direzione — office

Word forms

Inflections and variants

directorships — plural

Word family

Derived and related words

Derived: none provided

Related: board of directors, directionality, dirigibility, dirigisme, managing director, director

Semantic map

Other relationships

Hypernyms: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation

Coordinate Terms: ownership

Sources

Where this information comes from

Wiktionary data was expanded into structured fields by Wiktextract. Matching Princeton WordNet definitions and semantic relationships, plus CMUdict ARPABET pronunciations, are merged into this same canonical word page.

Wiktionary text is credited to English Wiktionary contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. The source entry and revision history URL, legal text, and the complete attribution and reuse instructions are collected on the site-wide Sources, credits & licenses page.

Changes made: Wiktionary markup was removed and matching senses were grouped; WordNet and CMUdict evidence was merged into the canonical word page. Source quotations with separate cited works are not republished.

The page is served entirely from a local, versioned copy; opening it makes no upstream request or external navigation.

Real reading context

Examples

Meaning relationships

Meaning relationships

directorship in complete knowledge articles