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Meaning of phonebook | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈfoʊnˌbʊk

Definitions

  1. A directory of all the phone numbers used in a district.
  2. A large lookup table.
    broadly

Equivalents

Suomi puhelinluettelo

Examples

“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.”
“He does this by using the Domain Name System, or DNS, which is the phonebook for the Internet.”

CEFR level

C2
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See also

phonebox phonecam phonecard Phoned phoneful phoneidoscope

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