textbook

About 6.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   textbook case

4. adjective Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook.

   Well done everyone, the tree fell exactly where we planned. That was textbook.

5. adjective Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience.

   He has a textbook understanding of company law but no practical experience of litigation.

Similar words

schoolbook casebook text standard school text text edition handbook workbook manual guidebook

Often followed by

of on for in and is or to that

Word family

textbooks