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phone book

phone book is the alternative form of phonebook.

Meaning of phonebook

Noun

phonebook (plural phonebooks)

  1. A directory of all the phone numbers used in a district.
    • One even proposes, in a workaday monotone, that the first hundred people in any Idaho phonebook could do just as well as the legislators at making decisions in the capital.2007 June 13, Virginia Heffernan, “Doing the People's Business, in All Its Somnolent Glory”, in New York Times
  2. (broadly) A large lookup table.
    • He does this by using the Domain Name System, or DNS, which is the phonebook for the Internet.2007 July 9, John Markoff, “Fixing Typos by Web Users, Without Raising Hackles”, in New York Times

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Forms of phone book

pluralphone books

Questions about phone book

What is phone book the alternative form of?
Phone book is the alternative form of phonebook.

Words near phone book in the dictionary

  1. phonautographs
  2. phone
  3. phone ahead
  4. phone bank
  5. phone banks
  6. phone book
  7. phone books
  8. phone booth
  9. phone booths
  10. phone box
  11. phone boxes

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