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phonebook en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈfoʊnˌbʊk/ (General-American)

Etymology

From phone + book.

Meanings

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:

Forms

Deriveds

have more chins than a Chinese phonebook

Hyponyms

yellow pages · white pages

Translations (5)

fi puhelinluettelo (large lookup table) · hu telefonkönyv (telephone directory) · pl książka telefoniczna (telephone directory) · hu távbeszélő-névsor (telephone directory) · pl duża tablica (large lookup table)

phonebook en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈfoʊnˌbʊk/ (General-American)

Etymology

From phone + book.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:Kiwi Farms, transitive) To determine the identity of (an Internet user) by comparing personal information to real-world directories or databases (e.g., lists of people in phonebooks or relatives of those who have recently died).

Forms