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[ stawr-ee-book, stohr- ] / ˈstɔr iˌbʊk, ˈstoʊr- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR storybook ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna book that contains a story or stories, especially for children. Origin of storybookFirst recorded in 1705–15; story1 + book Words nearby storybookStorrs, Storting, story, story arc, storyboard, storybook, story line, storyteller, storytelling, Storyville, storywriter Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for storybookIt would be a storybook ending to one of the ugliest chapters in history of American sports ownership. How to Rescue the Clippers From Donald Sterling’s Racist Clutches|Jesse Lawrence|April 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Once you drop the storybook image of a patriarch sitting on his throne above the clouds, room is made for a different story. Deepak Chopra on Why God Still Matters|Deepak Chopra|September 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST Their "storybook marriage" had chapters that included MS and cancer. Ann Romney: Mitt’s Secret Weapon Sputters|Michelle Cottle|August 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST Nesconset, N.Y., in a suburban neighborhood called the Storybook Development. Jodi Picoult on Writing, Publishing, and What She’s Reading|Noah Charney|April 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Anthony Zuiker is 43 years old and has had the kind of storybook career that most aspiring TV writers dream about. Google's TV Makeover|Dan Lyons|November 7, 2011|DAILY BEAST Wasn't it just a storybook over which I had fallen adoze and adream? The Turn of the Screw|Henry James "I have a vague, delightful feeling that I am the good angel in a storybook," she said. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901|Lucy Maud Montgomery None of your storybook writers will ever make as good a book as this, I warrant me. The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby|Charles Dickens The world is a storybook to a lad of nine, and the thought of Charlestown filled me with a delight unspeakable. The Crossing|Winston Churchill With her gleaming hair and violet eyes, she was entirely their ideal of a storybook heroine.
British Dictionary definitions for storybook
nouna book containing stories, esp for children adjectiveunreal or fantastica storybook world Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to storybookunbelievable, immaterial, illusory, fanciful, hallucinatory, false, dreamlike, unsubstantial, artificial, insubstantial, aerial, chimerical, delusive, fabled, fabulous, fictitious, ideal, imaginary, imagined, impalpable |