wordbook
Americannoun
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a book of words, usually with definitions, explanations, etc.; a dictionary.
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the libretto of an opera.
noun
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a book containing words, usually with their meanings
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a libretto for an opera
Etymology
Origin of wordbook
Example Sentences
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From Forbes
It is surrounded by a Caesar's ransom of rare editions�a first edition of Dante's Inferno, Caxton's Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, a first folio of Shakespeare, one of the three known copies of the wordbook of Handel's Messiah�but it is the most valued.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each song was announced by number from the stage, the numbers ostensibly corresponding to those in a printed wordbook previously distributed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Albert Way, Camden Society, 1865, 4to, by Geoffrey the Grammarian, a Dominican of Norfolk; "Catholicon Anglicum, an English Latin wordbook, dated 1483," ed.
From Project Gutenberg
Associated word: cleromancy. dicker, v. trade, barter, negotiate, exchange.--n. barter, trade, exchange, chaffering. dictate, n. command, admonition, prescription, impulse. dictator, n. despot, autocrat. dictatorial, a. imperious, dogmatical, overbearing. diction, n. language, phraseology. dictionary, n. lexicon, vocabulary, wordbook, glossary; gazetteer, gradus, onomasticon, idioticon, thesaurus.
From Project Gutenberg
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