SCHOOLBOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does schoolbook mean? 

• SCHOOLBOOK (noun)
  The noun SCHOOLBOOK has 1 sense:

1. a book prepared for use in schools or colleges

  Familiarity information: SCHOOLBOOK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOOLBOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A book prepared for use in schools or colleges

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

school text; schoolbook; text; text edition; textbook

Context example:

the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy

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

book (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together))

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

crammer (a textbook designed for cramming)

introduction (a basic or elementary instructional text)

primer (an introductory textbook)

reader (one of a series of texts for students learning to read)