diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index 5342aa533..7f38d7ea2 100644
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ understands certain strings in an rpath specification (DT_RPATH or DT_RUNPATH);
 .TP
 .IR $ORIGIN " (or equivalently " ${ORIGIN} )
 This expands to
-the directory containing the application executable.
+the directory containing the program or shared library.
 Thus, an application located in
 .I somedir/app
 could be compiled with