From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishphone bookˈphone book noun [countable] TCTa book that contains an alphabetical list of the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all the people who have a telephone in a particular area SYN telephone directory
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phone book• Grabbing the phone book, he leafed through, looking for the number of the nursing home.• Their addresses are in the phone book.• Nicola Hammond looked in the phone book.• She had to look up the number in the phone book.• It's in the phone book.• Hicks moved the phone book out of her way.• Inside the booth, he secured the door with his foot and thumbed through the phone book.• Elsewhere, see your phone book. 