Textbook

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A book used in schools or colleges for the formal study of a subject.
  • adj. Being a characteristic example of its kind; classic: a textbook case of schizophrenia.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
  • adj. Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
  • Word Usage
    ""John Barrie, the creator of a leading plagiarism-recognition system, claimed he found at least three instances of what he calls textbook plagiarism in the leggy blond pundit's Godless: the Church of Liberalism" after he ran the book's text through the company's digital iThenticate program."
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    smattering    handbook    rudiments    compendium    manual    professor    journal    lecture    treatise    dictionary