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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun textbook has 1 sense
- textbook(n = noun.communication) school text, schoolbook, text, text edition - a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy" is a kind of book
has particulars: crammer, introduction, primer, reader
Adjective textbook has 1 sense
- textbook(s = adj.all) casebook - according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
textbook, n. & adj.
--n. a book for use in studying, esp. a standard account of a subject.
--attrib.adj.
1 exemplary, accurate (cf. COPYBOOK).
2 instructively typical.
--n. a book for use in studying, esp. a standard account of a subject.
--attrib.adj.
1 exemplary, accurate (cf. COPYBOOK).
2 instructively typical.
Derivative
textbookish adj.
THESAURUS
textbook
abecedarium, abecedary, alphabet book, battledore, casebook, exercise book, gradus, grammar, hornbook, manual, manual of instruction, primer, reader, schoolbook, speller, spelling book, t, text, workbookROGET THESAURUS
textbook
Compendium
N compend, compendium, abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note, excerpt, synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus, album, scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book, extracts, excerpta, cuttings, fugitive pieces, fugitive writing, spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta, compilation, recapitulation, resume, review, abbreviation, abbreviature, contraction, shortening, compression, compendious, synoptic, analectic, abrege, abridged, variorum, in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words, it lies in a nutshell.
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