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bookteaching

bookteaching is the alternative form of book-teaching.

Meaning of book-teaching

Noun

book-teaching (countable and uncountable, plural book-teachings)

  1. Teaching from textbooks, rather than by hands-on experience.
    • […] and they are offered to the Student, in the hope that he may be encouraged to fill in the details from actual observation, and thereby cultivate a habit of self-reliance, instead of depending too much on book-teaching in his early studies.1872, Frederick Le Gros CLARK (F.R.S.), Outlines of Surgery and Surgical Pathology

Questions about bookteaching

What is bookteaching the alternative form of?
Bookteaching is the alternative form of book-teaching.

Words near bookteaching in the dictionary

  1. bookswaps
  2. booksy
  3. booktalk
  4. booktalks
  5. booktastic
  6. bookteaching
  7. Bookternet
  8. booktivist
  9. BookTok
  10. booktoken
  11. booktokens

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