Associations to the word «Textbook»

Wiktionary

TEXTBOOK, noun. A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.
TEXTBOOK, adjective. Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
TEXTBOOK, adjective. Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.

Dictionary definition

TEXTBOOK, noun. 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".
TEXTBOOK, adjective. According to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats