Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: textbook
IPA transcription: [t'ɛkstb,ʊk]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: casebook, textbook
    Meaning: according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: textbook, text, text_edition, schoolbook, school_text
    Meaning: a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"
Usage examples
  • The second person of the three was a boy of apparently seventeen--a well-built, handsome lad of the senior schoolboy type, who was devoting himself in business-like fashion to two widely-differing pursuits--one, the consumption of eggs and bacon and dry toast; the other, the study of a Latin textbook, which he had propped up in front of him against the old-fashioned silver cruet.