NAME AND ADDRESS

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does name and address mean? 

• NAME AND ADDRESS (noun)
  The noun NAME AND ADDRESS has 1 sense:

1. written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location

  Familiarity information: NAME AND ADDRESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAME AND ADDRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

address; destination; name and address

Hypernyms ("name and address" is a kind of...):

direction; instruction (a message describing how something is to be done)

Meronyms (parts of "name and address"):

postal code; postcode; ZIP; ZIP code (a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "name and address"):

return address (the address of the sender of a letter or parcel indicating where it should be returned if it cannot be delivered)

Holonyms ("name and address" is a part of...):

letter; missive (a written message addressed to a person or organization)

 Context examples 

It was the envelope of this letter which gave us the dead man’s name and address.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I went on with my part of the work, and in another half hour had found the name and address of Mrs. Westenra's solicitor and had written to him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Martin glanced at the upper left-hand corner and read the name and address of the Transcontinental Monthly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A purse and gold watch were found upon the victim: but no cards or papers, except a sealed and stamped envelope, which he had been probably carrying to the post, and which bore the name and address of Mr. Utterson.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This is my name and address.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His name and address were demonstrably false.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I like to come," Lucille said. "I never care what I do, so I always have a good time. When I was here last I tore my gown on a chair, and he asked me my name and address—inside of a week I got a package from Croirier's with a new evening gown in it."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)