Word Study
playbook
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun playbook has 3 senses
- playbook(n = noun.communication) Array - a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team); Array is a kind of notebook
- playbook(n = noun.communication) Array - a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays; "the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene" is a kind of book
- playbook(n = noun.cognition) Array - a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign; "they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition" is a kind of scheme, strategy
CIDE DICTIONARY
playbook, n.
A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play. Swift. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
playbook
best seller, book, bound book, classic, coloring book, continuity, cue, definitive work, folio, great work, hardback, juvenile, juvenile book, libretto, limp-cover book, lines, magnum opus, nonbook, notebook, novel, opus, opuscule, opusculum, paperback, picture book, pocket book, prayer book, production, psalmbook, psalter, publication, scenario, scene plot, score, script, serial, shooting script, side, sketchbook, soft-cover, songbook, standard work, storybook, text, title, tome, trade book, volume, work, writing
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