How do you pronounce phonebook?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈfoʊnˌbʊk/.

phonebook

/ˈfoʊnˌbʊk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English

Syllables: phone-book
IPA: /ˈfoʊnˌbʊk/

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Meaning

noun

A directory of all the phone numbers used in a district.

noun

A large lookup table.

verb

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).

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From phone + book.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈfoʊnˌbʊk/

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

phonebooks (plural) phone book (alternative) phonebooks (present, singular) phonebooking (participle, present) phonebooked (participle, past) phonebooked (past)

Phrases

have more chins than a Chinese phonebook

Synonyms

phone book telephone book telephone directory