phone book

Frequency: 7.030.1 per million words

A book listing telephone subscribers.

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Examples (10)

  • I couldn't find her number, so I checked the phone book.
  • Do you still use a physical phone book, or do you rely on online directories?
  • The old phone book was thick with pages of local listings.
  • She looked up the restaurant's number in the phone book.
  • My grandmother keeps an outdated phone book by her landline.
  • Finding someone's contact in a phone book feels like a relic of the past.
  • The hotel lobby had a large, well-worn phone book.
  • Before the internet, the phone book was the primary way to find people's numbers.
  • He remembers a time when every household had a phone book.
  • The digital age has largely replaced the printed phone book.