Textbook

Noun

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

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 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...
 * 1) * 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.

Thesaurus
abecedarium, abecedary, alphabet book, battledore, casebook, exercise book, gradus, grammar, hornbook, manual, manual of instruction, primer, reader, schoolbook, speller, spelling book, t, text, workbook

Noun

 * Arabic: كتاب مدرسي, مرجع
 * Belarusian: падручнік
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Croatian: udžbenik
 * Czech:
 * Danish: lærebog
 * Dutch: studieboek
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, livre de classe
 * German:
 * Greek:, διδακτικό βιβλίο,
 * Hebrew: ספר למוד
 * Hindi: पाठ्यपुस्तक
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:, テキストブック
 * Korean:
 * Malay: buku teks
 * Norwegian: lærebok
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: livro de texto, compêndio, sebenta, apostila
 * Russian:, пособие
 * Serbo-Croatian: уџбеник, udžbenik
 * Slovak: učebnica, učebnica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: lärobok
 * Thai: ตำราเรียน
 * Turkish: ders kitabı
 * Ukrainian: підручник
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: tidabuk
 * West Frisian: skriuwboek

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Danish: skole-


 * Finnish: ,
 * Volapük: tidabukik


 * Czech:
 * Danish: sædvanlig


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