telephone directory

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

They stuffed the leaflets into stamped envelopes and addressed the envelopes with names chosen randomly from telephone directories.

From Literature

Back when telephone directories were common, the saying was “I’d listen to this narrator read the phone book.”

From Seattle Times

Related Words

• directory
• phone book
• telephone book
• yellow pages