telephone directory

British  

noun

1. a book listing the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of subscribers in a particular area

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Example Sentences

“A telephone directory! Do you have a London telephone directory?”

From Literature

DNS acts as a kind of telephone directory for the internet, instructing machines on how to find each other.

From The Wall Street Journal

Soon after his arrival, my best friend and I were circling the quarterback’s picture in the student telephone directory.

From Los Angeles Times

To track him down, he dialled the 75 Namjoshis he found in a telephone directory - but found no leads.

From BBC

“We called it the telephone directory,” his widow, Eda, told me.

From Washington Post

Related Words

• directory
• phone book
• telephone book
• yellow pages