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copybook

copybook noun: a student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.

Noun

copybook (plural copybooks)

  1. A student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.
    • She whipped up the cards on the floor, extinguished an unglobed candle, and ruffled open the pages of Claude's copybook.2001, Allen Kurzweil, A Case of Curiosities
  2. (Quebec, UK) A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers.
  3. A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate.

copybook meaning in Tamil

copybook in Tamil

படி நூல்

Forms of copybook

pluralcopybooks

Origin of copybook

From copy + book.

Words formed from copybook

Phrases with copybook

Questions about copybook

What does copybook mean?
Copybook means a student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.
What is copybook in Tamil?
Copybook in Tamil is படி நூல். See Copybook meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is copybook?
Copybook is a noun.
What is the plural of copybook?
The plural of copybook is copybooks.

Words near copybook in the dictionary

  1. copy/pasting
  2. copyability
  3. copyable
  4. copyback
  5. copybacks
  6. copybook
  7. copybooks
  8. copyboy
  9. copyboys
  10. copycat
  11. copycatism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copybook (page history and authors); copybook (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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