telephone book

Questions about telephone book

What is another word for telephone book?

It depends which telephone book you mean. In the sense “a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers”, the synonyms are phonebook, phone book, telephone directory. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of telephone book?

WordNet records no antonym for telephone book. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for telephone book come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of telephone book

• Full entry for telephone bookAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for telephone bookWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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