notebook
Americannoun
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notebooks
plural
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They checked the sergeant's notebook for clues to his whereabouts.
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a book or binder of blank, often ruled, pages on which to write, especially one used by students to take notes in class.
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a book in which promissory notes are entered, registered, recorded, etc.
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Digital Technology. a small, lightweight laptop computer.
noun
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a book for recording notes or memoranda
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a book for registering promissory notes
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Etymology
Origin of notebook
Explanation
A notebook is a blank book that you can write in. Students often carry notebooks, where they can take notes (and doodle). The pages in a notebook are often lined, so that you can write neatly. You might keep one for writing to-do lists or thoughts (like a journal), or your notebooks might all be large binders full of class notes and math problems. Notebooks can be bound like books, or with a spiral metal or plastic binding, or consist of loose pages in a three-ring binder. Another, newer kind of notebook is a slim, lightweight laptop computer.
Example Sentences
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One day, I saw my older sister carefully burning the edges of a blank notebook.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
She already had the beauty and brains, all she’d need was an alias, a leotard and a notebook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
He added that the growth acceleration is also stemming from other products including Snowflake Notebooks, a digital notebook that helps users write code and work with data.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
In the corner of the living room, on a console table, was an unremarkable-looking notebook.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“The notebook has more information. You can see there’s a notation here to continue on another page. And when you go to that page”—she flipped through the notebook—“there’s an additional set of data.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
A July trip to Target to get everything on her list — among the items, two packs of wired headphones, Band-Aids, eight folders and four composition notebooks — cost about $230.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
That team is in the process of digitizing more than two decades of notebooks filled with recipes, ideas and fermentation logs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Text books, notebooks, pens and markers lay scattered across his bed and study table.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
The exhibition also includes an old photograph of the coastal city of Tyre, a black-and-white video of Nabatieh, and notebooks in which visitors wrote down their memories of the south.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Fred saw a clump of TV cameras and photographers and eager reporters with notebooks.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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