phone book
Americannoun
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phone books
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of phone book
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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For the internet to become what we think of as the internet, you also needed people like Paul Mockapetris, who created the domain name system that is known as the phone book of the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
A different email address - [email protected] - is listed in Epstein's phone book under a contact labelled "Duke of York", a previously released image showed.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
They were all looking for a man named Steven Reisner, whom they had been dating; somehow, none of them had ever gotten his phone number, so they had found me in the phone book.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024
While living on his mom’s couch, a casting director called after looking his name up in a phone book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
She let the phone book swing back on its chain and fished in her pocket for another dime.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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