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textbook

/ˈtɛkst.bʊk/

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What does textbook mean?

noun

  1. A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
  2. (figuratively) Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
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adjective

  1. (figuratively) Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook.
  2. (figuratively) Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience.

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Homer to the Greeks was a Bible, a textbook of morals, a history, and a national inspiration.
John DeweyDemocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of EducationProject Gutenberg ebook #852
The Bible was, of course, the chief textbook, but they studied other things, astronomy, geology, history, and similar subjects.
Mary Esther Miller MacGregorThe Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of FormosaProject Gutenberg ebook #1759
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For years she taught English in the University of Denver, College of Commerce, and is the author of more than one textbook.
J. Frank (James Frank) DobieGuide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few ObservationsProject Gutenberg ebook #314
It is not written as a textbook, for, as has been shown, there are authorities enough cited to supply all the technical information needed.
Bolton HallThree Acres and LibertyProject Gutenberg ebook #4509
It is not twenty years since English mathematicians could deplore the fact that, despite certain rather obvious defects of the work of Euclid, no better textbook than this was available.
Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington WilliamsA History of Science — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #1705