Textbook
['teks(t)bʊk] or ['tɛkstbʊk]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
Editor: Sasha--From WordNet
Examples
- Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Its sole textbook was the Koran. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Homer to the Greeks was a Bible, a textbook of morals, a history, and a national inspiration. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I have sought and have gained help from many of the standard textbooks, new and old. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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