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Noun Concept
Categories: 1878 introductions, Telephone numbers, Directories, History of the telephone, American inventions
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phonebook  phone book  telephone book  telephone directory  ex-directory
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A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Wikipedia
A book which allows telephone numbers to be found given the subscriber's name Wikipedia Disambiguation
Book that lists phone numbers of people and businesses Wikidata
A directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers. OmegaWiki
A directory of all the phone numbers used in a district. Wiktionary
A printed telephone directory. Wiktionary
A listing of telephone subscribers in a specific geographical area, together with their telephone numbers and, sometimes, a street address. Wiktionary
A listing of telephone subscribers. Wiktionary (translation)
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Because they are generally quite thick, old telephone books are sometimes used in informal tests of a weapon's cutting ability. Wiktionary