textbook

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
textbook
    adj 1: according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook;
           typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example"
           [syn: {casebook}, {textbook}]
    n 1: a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his
         economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor
         wrote the text that he assigned students to buy" [syn:
         {textbook}, {text}, {text edition}, {schoolbook}, {school
         text}] [ant: {trade book}, {trade edition}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Text-book \Text"-book`\, n.
   1. A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room
      for notes.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher
      lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a
      schoolbook.
      [1913 Webster] Text hand
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "textbook":
      abecedarium, abecedary, alphabet book, battledore, casebook,
      exercise book, gradus, grammar, hornbook, manual,
      manual of instruction, primer, reader, schoolbook, speller,
      spelling book, t, text, workbook

    

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