Definition of "telephone directory" []

• A listing of telephone subscribers in a specific geographical area, together with their telephone numbers and, sometimes, a street address. (noun)

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• "I found Saul Marcus first in the telephone directory and then in white-bearded person in an airy artist's studio near Chiswick in west London where he created fabric patterns."
• "In the business listings of the telephone directory was a hotel called Harbor Court. bor Co, bor C."
• "He reached for the telephone directory and got on to Miss Curley just as she had entered her home in Hammersmith."