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reference book
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun reference book has 1 sense
- reference book(n = noun.communication) book of facts, reference, reference work - a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic" is a kind of book
has particulars: cookbook, cookery book, instruction book, source book, wordbook, enchiridion, handbook, vade mecum, directory, annual, yearbook, yearly, atlas, book of maps, map collection, cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia
THESAURUS
reference book
Baedeker, Yellow Pages, atlas, bibliography, business directory, calendar, casebook, catalog, catalogue raisonne, checklist, city directory, classified catalog, classified directory, concordance, cyclopedia, diatesseron, dictionary catalog, directory, encyclopedia, finding list, gazetteer, guidebook, handbook, handlist, harmony, index, itinerary, phone book, polyglot, record book, road map, roadbook, source book, studbook, telephone book, telephone directory, work of reference
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