telephone book
Residential contact directory
A telephone book is a directory listing names, addresses, and phone numbers for people and businesses in a particular area.
Before the internet, telephone books were delivered annually to households—white pages for residential listings, yellow pages for businesses organized by category.
The phrase it's like looking for a needle in a haystack has largely replaced it's like finding someone in the phone book, as printed directories have become obsolete.
Residential telephone directory
- listingsPublished directory contents
- alphabeticalOrdered by letter sequence
- residentialRelating to housing
- businessesCommercial enterprises collectively
area codes · index · registry · entries · phone numbers · addresses · names · government
Recorded item in catalog
- entryAccess or submission
- numberSymbol representing quantity
- addressSpeak to formally
- nameIdentifying word for someone
surname · residence · neighbor · acquaintance · business · emergency · services · doctor
white pages
Residential telephone directory
- listingsPublished directory contents
- alphabeticalOrdered by letter sequence
- residentialRelating to housing
businesses · area codes · index · registry · entries · phone numbers · addresses · names · government · services
listing
Recorded item in catalog
name · surname · residence · neighbor · acquaintance · business · emergency · services · doctor · plumber
pages
Bound paper sheets
thick · heavy · recycling · doorstop · booster seat · kindling · weight · pulp · newsprint · spine
landline
Stationary wired telephone
- rotaryInvolving circular motion
- payphonePublic coin-operated telephone
- operatorOne who works machinery
directory assistance · analog · print · defunct · nostalgia · vintage · relic · switchboard · Ma Bell · disconnected
- contactsfriend, family, contact list, neighbor, acquaintances
- reference booksdictionary, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri
telephone bookonline directory
Searchable internet listing service
social media · LinkedIn · search engine · caller ID · GPS navigation
book, telephone, telegram, telegraph, telemarketing, telemetry, telephony, telegraphy, telephonic