Textbook - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Textbook :  adj : according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example" [syn: casebook] (noun)

1: a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy" [syn: text, text edition, schoolbook, school text] [ant: trade book]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Text-book \Text"-book`\, n. 1. A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.

2. A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)

Example Usage of Textbook

machi1238: @mslashy it isss; and i havent even opened the biology Textbook
lukefields: December rain coupled with a civil procedure Textbook: disaster
TheCityILove: @EricNorthman Plowing through about 250 pages of my Textbook. *huffs*
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