schoolbookn.
/ˈskuːlbʊk/, U.S. /ˈskulˌbʊk/ 1. A book used in teaching children at school; a textbook.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > textbook or book of instructions > [noun] > school book
schoolbook1581
copybook1598
task-book1624
class book1788
cram-book1858
workbook1873
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions Ep. Ded. sig. *iv The reducing of all other schoole bookes to some better choice: and all manner of teaching, to some redier fourme.
1660 C. Hoole New Discov. Old Art of teaching Schoole ii. v. 117 Thus have I freely imparted my thoughts touching the most familiar way..of..making use of these ordinary School-books.
1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 1 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Of our Adscititious School-Books and of Foreign Insititious Translations.
1745 B. Franklin Let. 11 Dec. in Wks. (1888) X. 238 At present I only send for a few school books, and books of navigation.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 103 A patent [was] granted him to print Latin School-books.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair l. 444 His bundle of school-books hanging by a thong.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 101 In our schoolbooks we say,..They flourish'd then or then.
1908 M. K. Waddington Chateau & Country Life in France vi. 218 Rather like the primitive pictures of North American Indians in our school-books.
1952 E. Templeton Island of Desire i. xii. 87 She gathered up her school books and took her hat and coat from the peg with trembling fingers.
1988 A. Miller Enabler (1990) i. 4 I picked up a mildewed schoolbook that had belonged to my son Tom.
2. An account book, register, etc., belonging or relating to a particular school.
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society > education > educational administration > school administration > [noun] > register or account book
album1775
schoolbook1865
logbook1872
1865 Blackburn Standard 26 Apr. There is a charge against me of knowingly and wilfully writing a false report in my school book.
1868 Rep. Commissioners (Schools Inquiry Commission) 10 235 There are records in the school-book of visits paid by deputations from the Company.
1912 Juvenile Court of Cook County (Appendix I.) 129 It is not improbable that the amounts were duly received by the school officials and that the transactions were not properly recorded in the school books.
1991 Past & Present Aug. 131 Studying this pedagogical undertaking posed no technical problems. Sources were easily identified and readily accessible: government promulgations, church ordinances,..school books,..and so on.
Compounds
attributive, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of a schoolbook or schoolbooks; basic, simple.’
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1751 W. Warburton in Wks. of Alexander Pope IV. 306 (note) Full of school-book phrases and Anglicisms.
1821 C. Simeon Let. 27 Nov. in W. Carus Mem. Life C. Simeon (1847) 558 The abundance of your own personal labours, and of those engaged in the School-book Society, amazes me.
1872 E. Eggleston End of World xl. 251 We have all read the old school-book story of the prison-warden who brought a mob of criminals to subjection by the same process.
1914 I. L. Gordon Who was Who 5000 B.C. to Date 27 Cæsar, Julius, school book writer, river crosser, and a great politician who was not born in Ireland.
1989 ‘C. Roman’ Foreplay iv. 31 Trying to veto their school-book attempts to psychoanalyze me.
1992 Nova Scotia Trav. Guide 83/1 (advt.) Large school-book collection, including Royal Readers.
2007 Sunday Times Trav. May 12/2 On a recent trip to central Spain (in a mixture of sign language and schoolbook Spanish), I told the waiter I didn't eat meat—so he very kindly brought me chicken instead!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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