Textbook

Quick meaning: Textbook is a noun meaning (education) A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

textbook case

It seemed too textbook, too talk-showish, but it was true.

Well done everyone, the tree fell exactly where we planned. That was textbook.

These figures are just too textbook, or papyrus-like, as if this information came off of a shelf in the Library of Alexandria

Word Forms

• textbooks
• text-book

Synonyms for textbook

Depending on context, synonyms include standard, text, schoolbook, casebook.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include schoolbook, casebook, text, standard, handbook, workbook.

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