Definition of Telephone directory

1. Noun. A directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers.

Exact synonyms: Phone Book, Phonebook, Telephone Book
Generic synonyms: Directory
Specialized synonyms: White Pages, Yellow Pages

Definition of Telephone directory

1. Noun. A listing of telephone subscribers in a specific geographical area, together with their telephone numbers and, sometimes, a street address. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Telephone Directory

telephone book
telephone booth
telephone booths
telephone box
telephone call
telephone calls
telephone card
telephone cards
telephone circuit
telephone company
telephone conference
telephone conversation
telephone cord
telephone dial
telephone directories
telephone directory (current term)
telephone exchange
telephone extension
telephone interview
telephone jack
telephone jacks
telephone kiosk
telephone line
telephone lines
telephone message
telephone number
telephone numbers
telephone operator
telephone operators
telephone order

Literary usage of Telephone directory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Public Utilities Reports by Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols, Public Utilities Reports, inc (1918)
"Subsequent to the issuance by the company of its telephone directory for October, ... The telephone directory issued by the company in the month of April, ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"That he caused to be inserted in the telephone directory of Albuquerque, issued and published in January, 1917, the following address and telephone number ..."

3. The Worker and His Work: Readings in Present Day Literature Presenting Some by Stella Stewart Center (1920)
"... THE telephone directory BY BERTON BRALEY What is there seeming duller than this book, This stolid volume of prosaic print? And yet it is a glass through ..."

4. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1921)
"... the detective business under that name and advertised and was listed under that name in the Boston city directory and the Boston telephone directory; ..."

5. The Web by Emerson Hough (1919)
"If he got a name without any address, he was taught to go to the nearest telephone directory or city directory. Sometimes a telephone number was known and ..."

6. The Web by Emerson Hough (1919)
"If he got a name without any address, he was taught to go to the nearest telephone directory or city directory. Sometimes a telephone number was known and ..."

7. One-line Specimens: Linotype Faces by Mergenthaler Linotype Company (1920)
"Samples of telephone directory composition are also shown. Following are designated the faces listed in the standard specifications: (a) 6 Point No. ..."

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