textbook

Plural: textbooks

Noun

• A book used as a standard for studying a subject.
• a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
  • "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"
• A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

Adjective Satellite

• according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical
  • "a textbook example"

Adj

• Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
• Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
• Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook.
• Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience.

Examples

• He has a textbook understanding of company law but no practical experience of litigation.
• His Scrabble strategy was so predictable, it could be taught from a textbook.
• Well done everyone, the tree fell exactly where we planned. That was textbook.

Synonyms

casebook, school text, schoolbook, text, text edition

Antonyms

trade edition

Related Words

casebook

Anagrams of textbook