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copybooks

copybooks is the plural of copybook.

Meaning of copybook

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.

Questions about copybooks

What is copybooks the plural of?
Copybooks is the plural of copybook.

Words near copybooks in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copybooks (page history and authors); copybook (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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