STORYBOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does storybook mean? 

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

1. a book containing a collection of stories (usually for children)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STORYBOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A book containing a collection of stories (usually for children)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

 Context examples 

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort it is.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Wolves is fine things in a storybook, and I dessay when they gets in packs and does be chivyin' somethin' that's more afeared than they is they can make a devil of a noise and chop it up, whatever it is.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He had entitled the story Adventure, and it was the apotheosis of adventure—not of the adventure of the storybooks, but of real adventure, the savage taskmaster, awful of punishment and awful of reward, faithless and whimsical, demanding terrible patience and heartbreaking days and nights of toil, offering the blazing sunlight glory or dark death at the end of thirst and famine or of the long drag and monstrous delirium of rotting fever, through blood and sweat and stinging insects leading up by long chains of petty and ignoble contacts to royal culminations and lordly achievements.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now, if she had been the heroine of a moral storybook, she ought at this period of her life to have become quite saintly, renounced the world, and gone about doing good in a mortified bonnet, with tracts in her pocket.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I felt as if I'd got into a romance, sitting there, watching the Neckar rolling through the valley, listening to the music of the Austrian band below, and waiting for my lover, like a real storybook girl.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)