noun
Meaning 1
A textbook, a book used, or prepared for use, in school.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
schoolbook
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noun
Meaning 2
a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his economics textbook is in its tenth edition
- the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: textbook, text, text edition, school text
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: book
Narrower terms: crammer, introduction, primer, reader
History
Etymology
From school + book.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: учебник (učebnik) — textbook used in school
- Dutch: schoolboek — textbook used in school
- Faroese: skúlabók — textbook used in school
- Finnish: koulukirja — textbook used in school
- French: manuel scolaire — textbook used in school
- German: Schulbuch — textbook used in school
- Hungarian: tankönyv — textbook used in school
- Irish: leabhar scoile — textbook used in school
- Norwegian Bokmål: skolebok — textbook used in school
- Norwegian Nynorsk: skulebok — textbook used in school
- Norwegian Nynorsk: skolebok — textbook used in school
- Polish: podręcznik — textbook used in school
- Tagalog: pampaaralang aklat — textbook used in school