SCHOOLBOOK
Dictionary entry overview: What does schoolbook mean?
• SCHOOLBOOK (noun)
The noun SCHOOLBOOK has 1 sense:
1. a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
Familiarity information: SCHOOLBOOK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SCHOOLBOOK (noun)
Meaning:
A book prepared for use in schools or colleges
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
school text; schoolbook; text edition; textbook; text
Context examples:
his economics textbook is in its tenth edition / the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy
Hypernyms ("schoolbook" is a kind of...):
book (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "schoolbook"):
crammer (a textbook designed for cramming)
introduction (a basic or elementary instructional text)
primer (an introductory textbook)
reader (one of a series of texts for students learning to read)
