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Telephone directory   /tˈɛləfˌoʊn dərˈɛktəri/   Listen
Telephone directory

noun
1.
A directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers.  Synonyms: phone book, phonebook, telephone book.






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"Telephone directory" Quotes from Famous Books



... A telephone directory on the desk caught her eye. For an hour she pored over its pages, names that had blazoned themselves incandescently from the pages of musical reviews and magazines mixed in casually with the clayey ones of mere persons. A thrill shot over her with each encounter. The book began to ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... had gone, still staring, the old man went back to his desk. He looked up a number in the telephone directory. 'Mr. Herbert? Roberts, Darley Roberts.—I'd like to see you personally. Yes, at ...
— The Dominant Dollar • Will Lillibridge



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