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text-book

text-book is the obsolete form of textbook.

Meaning of textbook

Noun

textbook (plural textbooks)

  1. A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

See all 5 meanings of textbook

Forms of text-book

pluraltext-books

Questions about text-book

What is text-book the obsolete form of?
Text-book is the obsolete form of textbook.

Words near text-book in the dictionary

  1. text type
  2. text types
  3. text wall
  4. text walls
  5. text-based
  6. text-book
  7. text-books
  8. text-critical
  9. text-editor
  10. text-editors
  11. text-to-speech

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Adapted from Wiktionary: text-book (page history and authors); textbook (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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