Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - sense of direction

1. Your sense of direction is your ability to know roughly where you are, or which way to go, even when you are in an unfamiliar place. He had a poor sense of direction and soon got lost. N-SING 2. If you say that someone has a sense of direction, you mean that they seem to have clear ideas about what they want to do or achieve. The country now had a sense of direction again. N-SING c darkgreen]approval