telephone directory

Questions about telephone directory

What is another word for telephone directory?

It depends which telephone directory 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 book. 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 directory?

WordNet records no antonym for telephone directory. 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 directory 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 directory

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