phone book

Noun

Meaning

a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

phonebook telephone directory telephone book atlas directory yellow pages area code studbook white pages book with telephone numbers book containing phone numbers book containing telephone numbers book containing the telephone numbers book that lists the addresses book that lists the names
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Hypernyms

directory

Hyponyms

yellow pages white pages

Examples

Allason hired a research assistant to call every J. García in the Barcelona phone book, eventually contacting Pujol's nephew. Source: Internet

A DNS server tells your computer the address of a server it’s looking for, in the same way that you might look up a phone number in a phone book. Source: Internet

He told The Sun Online: "I mean, I do have to admit nearly everyone in my phone book phoned me to see if I was going, because I think people genuinely did think that I was going. Source: Internet

"One particular permission that is probably the biggest gold mine is the phone book. Source: Internet

Function An often-used analogy to explain the Domain Name System is that it serves as the phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses. Source: Internet

He wasn’t in the phone book; she was ashamed to admit, but she’d tried to look him up a number of times only to run into a dead end. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

phone back phone bank phone bill phone booth phone box phone cable