noun
Meaning 1
A book or pad with blank pages for sketching; a sketch pad.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sketchbook
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/ˈskɛt͡ʃˌbʊk/
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noun
Meaning 2
A book of printed sketches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A printed book of literary sketches or skits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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noun
Meaning 4
a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sketch block, sketch pad
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: book, volume
History
Etymology
From sketch + book.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: دفتر رسم (daftar rasm) — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Armenian: էսքիզների տետր (ēskʻizneri tetr) — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Armenian: նկարչական ալբոմ (nkarčʻakan albom) — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Belarusian: альбо́м (alʹbóm) — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Belarusian: блакно́т (blaknót) — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Belarusian: скетчбу́к (skjetčbúk) — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Bulgarian: ски́цник (skícnik) — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Chinese Mandarin: 素描本 (sùmiáoběn) — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Czech: skicák — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Dutch: schetsboek — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Esperanto: skizlibro — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Finnish: luonnoslehtiö — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Finnish: luonnoskirja — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- French: carnet de croquis — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- German: Skizzenbuch — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Hungarian: vázlatfüzet — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Irish: leabhar sceitseála — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Norwegian Bokmål: skisseblokk — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Norwegian Bokmål: skissebok — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Polish: szkicownik — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Russian: скетчбу́к (sketčbúk) — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Russian: блокно́т (bloknót) — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Russian: альбо́м (alʹbóm) — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Spanish: cuaderno de bocetos — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Swedish: skissbok — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Turkish: eskiz defteri — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Turkish: taslak defteri — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Volapük: skätabuk — book or pad with blank pages for sketching
- Volapük: skätamabuk — book or pad with blank pages for sketching