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| Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) | Cite This Source |
Audio Help [n. uh-dres, ad-res; v. uh-dres] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -dressed or -drest, -dress·ing. | 1. | a speech or written statement, usually formal, directed to a particular group of persons: the President's address on the state of the economy. |
| 2. | a direction as to the intended recipient, written on or attached to a piece of mail. |
| 3. | the place or the name of the place where a person, organization, or the like is located or may be reached: What is your address when you're in Des Moines? |
| 4. | manner of speaking to persons; personal bearing in conversation. |
| 5. | skillful and expeditious management; ready skill; dispatch: to handle a matter with address. |
| 6. | Computers. a label, as an integer, symbol, or other set of characters, designating a location, register, etc., where information is stored in computer memory. |
| 7. | Government. a request to the executive by the legislature to remove a judge for unfitness. |
| 8. | Usually, addresses. attentions paid by a suitor or lover; courtship. |
| 9. | (usually initial capital letter) the reply to the King's speech in the English Parliament. |
| 10. | Obsolete. preparation. |
| 11. | to direct a speech or written statement to: to address an assembly. |
| 12. | to use a specified form or title in speaking or writing to: Address the President as “Mr. President.” |
| 13. | to direct to the attention: He addressed his remarks to the lawyers in the audience. |
| 14. | to apply in speech (used reflexively, usually fol. by to): He addressed himself to the leader. |
| 15. | to deal with or discuss: to address the issues. |
| 16. | to put the directions for delivery on: to address a letter. |
| 17. | Commerce. to consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor. |
| 18. | to direct the energy or efforts of (usually fol. by to): He addressed himself to the task. |
| 19. | to direct (data) to a specified location in an electronic computer. |
| 20. | Golf. to take a stance and place the head of the club behind (the ball) preparatory to hitting it. |
| 21. | Obsolete. to woo; court. |
| 22. | Archaic. to give direction to; aim. |
| 23. | Obsolete. to prepare. |
| 24. | to make an appeal. |
| 25. | to make preparations. |
| Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
| Synonym Collection v1.1 | Cite This Source | |
| Main Entry: | address | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective | |
| Synonyms: | addressable, addressing, apostrophic, salutational, salutatory | |
| Source: | Synonym Collection v1.1 Copyright © 2008 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. | |
| Synonym Collection v1.1 | Cite This Source | |
| Main Entry: | address | |
| Part of Speech: | noun | |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, allocution, bearing, deportment, dexterity, direction, discourse, ingenuity, lecture, oration, speech, delivery. associated word: vocative, superscription | |
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| Roget's II: The New Thesaurus | Cite This Source | |
| Main Entry: | address | |
| Part of Speech: | verb | |
| Definition: | To direct speech to. | |
| Synonyms: | speak, talk | |
| Source: | Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. | |
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| Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia | Cite This Source |
Gettysburg Address, speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa. It is one of the most famous and most quoted of modern speeches. The final version of the address prepared by Lincoln, differing in detail from the spoken address, reads:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
See A. Nevins, ed., Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address (1964); W. E. Barton, Lincoln at Gettysburg (1930, repr. 1971); G. Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg (1992); G. Boritt, The Gettysburg Gospel (2006).
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