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yellow pages

plural noun

, (often initial capital letters)
  1. a classified telephone directory or section of a directory, listing subscribers by the type of business or service they offer, usually printed on yellow paper.


Yellow Pages

plural noun

  1. a classified telephone directory, often printed on yellow paper, that lists subscribers by the business or service provided


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Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow pages1

First recorded in 1950–55

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Example Sentences

I looked in the Yellow Pages and saw that the Holiday Inn also advertised color TV.

I like to see my desktop covered with face-up yellow pages drying like paintings in the sun.

Apparently, Alexander is the one person still using the Yellow Pages.

In these yellow pages is a melancholy reflection of the gayety and gallantry of the Sans Souci hotel seventy years ago.

I will tear the core out of many yellow pages of diffuse writing spiced with smug moral reflections.

I had taken the copy of Graziani's suites off the desk, and was holding it on my lap turning over the old foxed and yellow pages.

I took the book in my hand and turned over its yellow pages.

Clinical psychologists are listed in the Yellow Pages under "Psychologists."

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