I looked up his telephone number in a telephone directory.
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Directory
Synonyms for "directory" (173 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (35)
Strong matches (52)
city councilcity directoryclassified catalogclassified directorycommandingcommon councilcommunicationcommuniqueconcordanceconferencecongressconsultative assemblycontrollingcouncilcouncil firecouncil of ministerscouncil of statecouncil of warcounty councilcourt
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cyclopediadatadatumdeliberative assemblydiatesserondictionary catalogdietdirectingdirectivedirectoratedispatchdivandopeencyclopediaenlightenmentevidenceexecutiveexecutive armexecutive committeeexecutive hierarchyfactsfactual informationfamiliarizationfinding listfoldergazetteergengenealogygeneral informationgoods
Noun(2 words)
Related words (86)
governinggoverning boardgoverning bodyguidebookhandbookhandlisthandouthard informationharmonyheadincidental informationindexinfoinformationinfrastructureinstructionintelligenceinterlocking directorateitineraryjunta
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kitchen cabinetknowknowledgeleadinglegislaturelightlistmanagementmanagerialmanagingmentionmessagenoticenotificationparish councilpedigreephone bookpolyglotpresentationprivy councilpromotional materialproofpublicationpublicityrecord bookred bookreference bookregisterregulatoryreleasereportroad maproadbookrollroyal kalendarsanhedrinscoopsidelightsocial registersource booksovietstaffstatementsteering committeestudbooksyndicatesynodtelephone booktelephone directorythe administrationthe brassthe dopethe executivethe goodsthe knowthe people upstairsthe scooptop brasstransmissiontribunalus cabinetwhite bookwhite paperwordwork of referenceyellow pages
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6 entriesMore specific
5 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesat location
1 entriescoordinate
3 entriesderived
10 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
Translations
124 translations across 35 languages.
Belarusian
3 entries- дырэкто́рыя noun (structured listing of files)
- катало́г noun (structured listing of files)
- па́пка noun (structured listing of files)
Bulgarian
2 entries- директо́рия noun (structured listing of files)
- указа́тел noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
Catalan
1 entries- directori noun (simulated folder)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 名錄 /名录 noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- 目錄 /目录 noun (structured listing of files)
- 目錄 /目录 noun (simulated folder)
- 簿 noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
Czech
3 entries- adresář noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- adresář noun (structured listing of files)
- adresář noun (simulated folder)
Dutch
4 entries- Gouden gids noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- Witte gids noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- folder noun (simulated folder)
- gids noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
Esperanto
3 entries- dosierujo noun (simulated folder)
- katalogo noun (structured listing of files)
- telefonlibro noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
Finnish
4 entries- hakemisto noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- hakemisto noun (structured listing of files)
- hakemisto noun (simulated folder)
- kansio noun (simulated folder)
French
4 entries- annuaire noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- directoire noun (form of government)
- dossier noun (structured listing of files)
- dossier noun (simulated folder)
German
4 entries- Direktorium noun (form of government)
- Ordner noun (structured listing of files)
- Ordner noun (simulated folder)
- Verzeichnis noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
Greek
3 entries- κατάλογος noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- κατάλογος noun (structured listing of files)
- κατάλογος noun (simulated folder)
Hindi
1 entries- डायरेक्टरी noun (structured listing of files)
Hungarian
4 entries- címtár noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- könyvtár noun (simulated folder)
- könyvtárlista noun (structured listing of files)
- mappa noun (simulated folder)
Icelandic
1 entries- efnisskrá noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
Indonesian
3 entries- direktori noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- direktori noun (structured listing of files)
- direktori noun (simulated folder)
Italian
4 entries- cartella noun (structured listing of files)
- cartella noun (simulated folder)
- directory noun (structured listing of files)
- elenco noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
Japanese
4 entries- ディレクトリ noun (structured listing of files)
- ディレクトリ noun (simulated folder)
- フォルダ noun (structured listing of files)
- フォルダ noun (simulated folder)
Kazakh
1 entries- анықтамалық noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
Korean
4 entries- 디렉토리 noun (structured listing of files)
- 디렉토리 noun (simulated folder)
- 폴더 noun (structured listing of files)
- 폴더 noun (simulated folder)
Macedonian
4 entries- а́дресар noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- и́меник noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- ка́талог noun (structured listing of files)
- ка́талог noun (simulated folder)
Malay
1 entries- direktori noun (structured listing of files)
Māori
1 entries- whaiaronga noun (structured listing of files)
Persian
1 entries- دایرکتوری noun (structured listing of files)
Polish
2 entries- katalog noun (structured listing of files)
- katalog noun (simulated folder)
Portuguese
4 entries- diretoria noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- diretoria noun (simulated folder)
- diretório noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- diretório noun (simulated folder)
Russian
4 entries- директо́рия noun (structured listing of files)
- директо́рия noun (simulated folder)
- директо́рия noun (form of government)
- катало́г noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dirèktōrij noun (simulated folder)
- dirèktōrijum noun (simulated folder)
- katàlog noun (simulated folder)
- ȉmenīk noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
Slovak
1 entries- adresár noun (structured listing of files)
Spanish
3 entries- directorio noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- directorio noun (simulated folder)
- directorio noun (form of government)
Swedish
3 entries- katalog noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- katalog noun (structured listing of files)
- mapp noun (simulated folder)
Tagalog
1 entries- talahanapan noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
Thai
1 entries- ไดเรกทอรี noun (structured listing of files)
Turkish
4 entries- dizin noun (structured listing of files)
- dizin noun (simulated folder)
- klasör noun (structured listing of files)
- klasör noun (simulated folder)
Ukrainian
4 entries- директо́рія noun (structured listing of files)
- директо́рія noun (form of government)
- катало́г noun (structured listing of files)
- па́пка noun (structured listing of files)
Welsh
2 entries- cyfarwyddiadur noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
- cyfeiriadur noun (list of names, addresses etc.)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
No, I don't. You had better look it up in a telephone directory.
Source: tatoeba (277000)
May I see the telephone directory?
Source: tatoeba (279366)
I'm not sure what his number is. You'll have to look it up in the telephone directory.
Source: tatoeba (287211)
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