NOTEBOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does notebook mean? 

• NOTEBOOK (noun)
  The noun NOTEBOOK has 2 senses:

1. a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda

2. a small compact portable computer

  Familiarity information: NOTEBOOK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOTEBOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("notebook" is a kind of...):

book; volume (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "notebook"):

commonplace book (a notebook in which you enter memorabilia)

jotter (a small notebook for rough notes)

playbook (a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small compact portable computer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

notebook; notebook computer

Hypernyms ("notebook" is a kind of...):

portable computer (a personal computer that can easily be carried by hand)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "notebook"):

planner (a notebook for recording appointments and things to be done, etc.)

 Context examples 

There were a number of letters, bills, and notebooks, which Holmes turned over and examined with quick, nervous fingers and darting, penetrating eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A policeman was beside us, his notebook in his hand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes leaned back in his armchair and took his notebook from his pocket.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I never can, so I'll only give you bits out of my notebook, for I've done nothing but sketch and scribble since I started.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Standing by the table, with his finger in the page to keep the place, and his right arm flourishing above his head, Traddles, as Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Burke, Lord Castlereagh, Viscount Sidmouth, or Mr. Canning, would work himself into the most violent heats, and deliver the most withering denunciations of the profligacy and corruption of my aunt and Mr. Dick; while I used to sit, at a little distance, with my notebook on my knee, fagging after him with all my might and main.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog's-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Holmes replaced the bill in his notebook.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How otherwise could he have seen the monster which he sketched in his notebook?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With a dubious glance at the inspector’s notebook, he plunged at once into his extraordinary statement.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a page torn from a notebook.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)