textbook

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• IPA: /ˈtɛkst.bʊk/

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Noun

Wikipedia textbook (plural textbooks)

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

Translations

formal manual of instruction

Arabic: كتاب مدرسي (ar) (kitaab madrásiy) m., مرجع (ar) (márji3) m. Belarusian: падручнік (be) (padrúčnik) m. Bulgarian: учебник (bg) (učébnik) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 課本 (cmn), 课本 (cmn) (kèběn), 教科書 (cmn), 教科书 (cmn) (jiàokēshū) Croatian: udžbenik (hr) Czech: učebnice (cs) f. Danish: lærebog (da) Dutch: studieboek (nl) Esperanto: lernolibro (eo), tekstolibro (eo) Finnish: oppikirja (fi) French: manuel (fr) m., livre de classe (fr) m. German: Lehrbuch (de) n. Greek: εγχειρίδιο (el) (encheirídio) m., διδακτικό βιβλίο (el) (didaktikó vivlío) m., βιβλίο (el) (vivlío) Hebrew: סֵפֶר לִמוּד (he) Hindi: पाठ्यपुस्तक (hi) (pāṭhyapustak) Hungarian: tankönyv (hu)

Italian: libro di testo (it) m. Japanese: 教科書 (ja) (きょうかしょ, kyōkasho), テキストブック (ja) (tekisutobukku) Korean: 교과서 (ko) (gyogwaseo) (教科書 (ko)) Malay: buku teks Norwegian: lærebok (no) Polish: podręcznik (pl) m. Portuguese: livro de texto (pt) m., compêndio (pt) m., sebenta (pt) f. (Portugal), apostila (pt) f. (Brazil), livro didático (pt) m. Russian: учебник (ru) (učébnik) m., пособие (ru) (posóbije) n. Serbo-Croatian: уџбеник (sh) m., udžbenik (sh) m. Slovak: učebnica f., učebnica (sk) f. Spanish: libro de texto (es) m., texto (es) m. Swedish: lärobok (sv) Thai: ตำราเรียน (th) (dtam-raa rian) Turkish: ders kitabı (tr) Ukrainian: підручник (uk) (pidrúčnyk) m. Vietnamese: sách giáo khoa (vi) Volapük: tidabuk (vo) West Frisian: skriuwboek

Adjective

textbook (comparative more textbook, superlative most textbook)

1. Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
   • 1917, George Ransom Twiss, A textbook in the principles of science teaching‎

     It is likely to kill interest, and give both teacher and pupils a didactic, textbook attitude at the very beginning.

   • 2000, Okasha El Daly, Janet Starkey, Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence‎

     They are mentioned in his flat, textbook voice, alongside schoolroom descriptions of topography and assessments of economic significance.

   • 2004, David Henn, Old Spain and new Spain: the travel narratives of Camilo José Cela‎

     ...a kind of descriptive account or a social, geographical, anthropological, or historical commentary that may at times have a certain textbook tone to it.

2. Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon.
   • 1997, Alexander De Waal, Famine crimes: politics and the disaster relief industry in Africa‎

     It was a textbook case of how prompt government action could avert a major crisis.

   • 2003, Felice Picano, A house on the ocean, a house on the bay‎

     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, Robert J Art, Patrick M Cronin, The United States and coercive diplomacy‎

     In many ways the Korean nuclear crisis is a textbook example of coercive diplomacy — its strengths as well as the risks inherent in such a strategy.

Translations

of or pertaining to textbooks or their styles

Czech: učebnicový (cs) Danish: skole-

Finnish: oppikirja- (fi), koulu- (fi) Volapük: tidabukik (vo)

having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon

Czech: učebnicový (cs) Danish: sædvanlig

Finnish: oppikirja- (fi), koulu- (fi)

Quotations

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