textbooknoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtekst.bʊk/us/ˈtekst.bʊk/A2 a book that contains detailed information about a subject for people who are studying that subject:
a science textbook
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Books: reference books
- almanac
- annual
- atlas
- bible
- coursebook
- dictionary
- encyclopedia
- gazetteer
- grammar
- guide
- guidebook
- handbook
- manual
- peerage
- phrase book
- reference book
- the Yellow Pages
- thesaurus
- who's who idiom
- yearbook
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textbookadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈtekst.bʊk/us/ˈtekst.bʊk/(of an example of something) extremely good, or thought to be usual or typical:
That was a textbook goal from Taylor.
It was a textbook example of how to deal with the problem.
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Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
- analogy
- archetype
- be sb all over idiom
- betoken
- by way of idiom
- genre
- hold
- mark
- mirror
- Mr
- Mrs
- quintessential
- representative
- stand
- true
- trust
- trust sb (to do sth)! idiom
- typical
- typically
- typify
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