phone book

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

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Questions about phone book

What does phone book mean?

phone book means "a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers".

What is another word for phone book?

Close synonyms include phonebook, telephone book, telephone directory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phone book a common word?

phone book is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.