directory vs telephone book

directory and telephone book both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
directory	Yes	No	No	No
telephone book	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, telephone book is a hyponym of directory; that is, telephone book is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than directory:

directory: an alphabetical list of names and addresses
telephone book: a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers

Other hyponyms of directory include phone book, phonebook, telephone directory, blue book.

directory (noun)	telephone book (noun)
an alphabetical list of names and addresses	a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers
(computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)

directory vs telephone book

directory and telephone book both are nouns.

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