textbook

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Singular
textbook

Plural
textbooks

textbook (plural textbooks)

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

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formal manual of instruction

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textbook

  1. of or pertaining to textbooks or their styles.
    textbook examples
  2. dealing with a subject in a pragmatic or fundamental way, as books or persons do.
    a textbook approach to introductory psychology
  3. having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon.
    a textbook case of mistaken identity

[edit] Translations

of or pertaining to textbooks or their styles
dealing with a subject in a pragmatic or fundamental way, as books or persons do
having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon
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