telephone directory

British  

noun

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

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telephone directory

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

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

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2023

The result was no-frills, but functional and inspiring enough to land on the cover of the telephone directory and nab design awards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2016

He stalled by reading from the Washington telephone directory and giving his colleagues his recipes for “pot-likker,” corn bread, and turnip greens.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016

He found a telephone directory in a filling station and he wrote the name of the town on their map with a pencil.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Related Words

• directory
• phone book
• telephone book
• yellow pages