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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a book prepared for use in schools or colleges;
- Example: "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"
- Example: "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"
[syn: textbook, text, text edition, schoolbook, school text]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical;
- Example: "a casebook schizophrenic"
- Example: "a textbook example"
[syn: casebook, textbook]


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
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]
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