textbook
UK/ˈtɛkst.bʊk/
More pronunciations (2)Fewer pronunciations
Australia/ˈtekst.bʊk/
textbook noun: a coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.
Noun
textbook (plural textbooks)
- A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.
Adjective
textbook (comparative more textbook, superlative most textbook)
- Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
- These figures are just too textbook, or papyrus-like, as if this information came off of a shelf in the Library of Alexandria2011, Thomas Karl Dietrich, The Culture of Astronomy: Origin of Number, Geometry, Science, Law, and Religion, page 347
- Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
- textbook case
- Every night had been clear and star-studded, the progression of the moon through its phases absolutely textbook, its dance with the planets visible in the ecliptic...2003, Felice Picano, A house on the ocean, a house on the bay
- Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook.
- Well done everyone, the tree fell exactly where we planned. That was textbook.
- […]Hilts and the commandant spar verbally in a very textbook shot/reverse shot scene, back and forth, “over the shoulder” of one interlocutor and then the other […]2021, Dana Polan, Dreams of Flight: "The Great Escape" in American Film and Culture, page 140
- Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience.
- He has a textbook understanding of company law but no practical experience of litigation.
- So a lot of women will be very textbook if something meets the definition of sexual harassment, whereas a lot of men are more laissez-faire.2023, Pamela Aronson, Matthew R. Fleming, Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life
textbook meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
textbook in Hindi
- formal manual of instruction
- पाठ्यपुस्तक pāṭhyapustak, टेक्स्ट-बुक ṭeksṭ-buk
textbook in Tamil
- பாடநூல்
textbook in Marathi
- textbook
- पाठ्यपुस्तक pāṭhyapustak
textbook in Urdu
- formal manual of instruction
- نِصابی کِتاب nisābī kitāb, دَرْسی کِتاب darsī kitāb, ٹیکْسْٹ بُک ṭeksṭ buk
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- textbook in Bengali
- পাঠ্যপুস্তক paṭṭhopustok
- textbook in Telugu
- పాఠ్యపుస్తకము pāṭhyapustakamu
- textbook in Malayalam
- പാഠപുസ്തകം
- textbook in Kannada
- ಪಠ್ಯಪುಸ್ತಕ, ಪಠ್ಯ ಪುಸ್ತಕ
- textbook in Punjabi
- ਪਾਠ ਪੁਸਤਕ, ਪਾਠ-ਪੁਸਤਕ
- textbook in Gujarati
- પાઠ્યપુસ્તક pāṭhyapustak
- textbook in Odia
- ପାଠ pāṭha
- textbook in Nepali
- पाठ्यपुस्तक
- textbook in Pashto
- درسي کتاب darsi kitāb
- textbook in Tagalog
- aralang aklat, aklat-aralin, aklat-pampaaralan, teksbuk
- textbook in Arabic
- كِتَاب مَدْرَسِيّ kitāb madrasiyy, مَرْجِع marjiʕ
- textbook in Malay
- buku teks
- textbook in Indonesian
- buku pelajaran, buku paket, buku ajar
- textbook in Thai
- ตำราเรียน dtam-raa-riian, ตำรา dtam-raa, หนังสือเรียน nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ-riian
- textbook in Vietnamese
- sách giáo khoa
- textbook in Myanmar
- ကျောင်းသုံးစာအုပ် kyaung:sum:caup
Examples of textbook in a sentence
- Involuntarily it is practiced all the time, for instance when Shylock at the beginning of the trial describes himself as a very textbook example of a very bad and very common illness.2011, Inge Leimberg, 'What May Words Say ... ?': A Reading of the The Merchant of Venics, page 250:
- It's absolutely textbook! / The amount of trust Mia had in her future self was infinitesimal.2024, Nozomu Mochitsuki, Tearmoon Empire, volume 12, page 10:
- It seemed too textbook, too talk-showish, but it was true.2025, Sheena King, Submerged: On Healing from Abuse While Navigating a Lifetime of Imprisonment, page 66:
Forms of textbook
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | textbooks |
| alternative form | text-book |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more textbook |
| superlative | most textbook |
Origin of textbook
From text + book.
Words formed from textbook
Phrases with textbook
Questions about textbook
- What does textbook mean?
- Textbook means a coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.
- What is textbook in Hindi?
- Textbook in Hindi is पाठ्यपुस्तक (pāṭhyapustak), टेक्स्ट-बुक (ṭeksṭ-buk). See Textbook meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use textbook in a sentence?
- Involuntarily it is practiced all the time, for instance when Shylock at the beginning of the trial describes himself as a very textbook example of a very bad and very common illness.
- What part of speech is textbook?
- Textbook can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce textbook?
- Textbook is pronounced /ˈtɛkst.bʊk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of textbook?
- The plural of textbook is textbooks.
Words near textbook in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: textbook (page history and authors); textbook (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); पाठ्यपुस्तक (Marathi) (page history and authors); textbook (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); textbook (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); textbook (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); પાઠ્યપુસ્તક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ପାଠ (Odia) (page history and authors); textbook (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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