| the white pages of a telephone directory, or sometimes a separate volume, in which subscribers are listed alphabetically. |
| white pages pl.n. A volume or section of a telephone directory that alphabetically lists the names of people and sometimes businesses. |
White pages
A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.