white pages
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈwaɪt ˈpeɪdʒɪz/
- Archaic
:
páginas blancas
- The white pages directory search is an extensive search that will bring you complete information without invading privacy.
- find in the white pages
And after lunch I would sit in front of a computer at the archive and I would look up phone numbers in the online white pages.
- And after lunch I would sit in front of a computer at the archive and I would look up phone numbers in the online white pages.
- So I whip out like the white pages or you know, Mojo or any data source to find whatsoever.
Examples
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I scanned the "Th" section in the white pages.
Fiction book (1997) -
She looked up her friend's address in the white pages to give her a call.
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The number's in the white pages.
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The service available in the USA for white pages is as advanced as others, maybe a little more.
Blog text (31) -
"Here, call her before you leave," he says, handing me the phone and the Dallas white pages.
Fiction book (1994) -
Wasn't so long ago, I could go to "white pages" or a number of other websites to do a reverse look-up on a phone number.
Blog text (27) -
Ten minutes later, he sat on the floor of his Indiana University dormitory room, staring at a single entry in the Bloomington white pages as his fingers began punching the numbers.
Fiction book (2002) -
Although the state's system automatically calls all landline phones in the white pages (whether listed or unlisted), cell phones and email addresses are only included if they are added manually, he said.
Blog text (18) -
But he got up and went to the kitchen divider, where he opened the phone book—thanking his luck that the scorched part was at the end of the white pages—and called the animal control center.
Fiction book (2002) -
It took no brains to go through the Rabinowitzes in the Queens white pages and find out that there were two Hymans, and one of them had a Rev. in front of his name, so I called the other one and said in my best telephone voice to the woman who answered, "Excuse me, I am calling the man who is opening a bagel store on Adler Avenue..."
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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1.0
A book with people's names, addresses, and numbers to call listed alphabetically
50
3.0
A book or online list of names and addresses of people and organizations
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1.0
A book or list of people and businesses with their phone numbers
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1.0
A book that lists names, addresses and phone numbers of people and businesses
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2.0
A book or website with a list of names in order and phone numbers
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is historically compositional (pages printed on white paper) so the words 'white' + 'pages' give a clue, but the specific institutional sense 'telephone directory of residential listings' requires cultural/conventional knowledge and is not directly predictable from the constituents alone. A B1 learner who knows the words might guess 'pages that are white' but would likely not infer the telephone-directory meaning on first encounter.
Etymology
White pages comes from old printed phone books that used plain white paper to list people's home names and numbers, while business listings were printed on yellow paper called the 'Yellow Pages'. So, white pages now means 'a telephone directory' of household numbers.