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TEXTBOOK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does textbook mean?
• TEXTBOOK (noun)
The noun TEXTBOOK has 1 sense:
1. a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
Familiarity information: TEXTBOOK used as a noun is very rare.
• TEXTBOOK (adjective)
The adjective TEXTBOOK has 1 sense:
1. according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical
Familiarity information: TEXTBOOK used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("textbook" 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 "textbook"):
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)
Sense 1
Meaning:
According to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical
Synonyms:
casebook; textbook
Context example:
a textbook example
Similar:
standard (established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence)
Context examples
"But some aphids are more sensitive to crowding than others. Figuring out why is key to understanding how this textbook example of phenotypic plasticity works."
(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)
In my astrological textbooks from way back, I remember the warning, for under these aspects, your partner may do better than you, as your success might be consumed by your partner.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a textbook, which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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