notebook

[noht-book]

noun

1. a book of notes.

   They checked the sergeant's notebook for clues to his whereabouts.

2. a book or binder of blank, often ruled, pages on which to write, especially one used by students to take notes in class.

3. a book in which promissory notes are entered, registered, recorded, etc.

4. Digital Technology.,  a small, lightweight laptop computer.

notebook

/ ˈnəʊtˌbʊk /

noun

1. a book for recording notes or memoranda

2. a book for registering promissory notes

Word History and Origins

Origin of notebook¹

First recorded in 1570–80; note + book

Example Sentences

Wray, for example, had multiple items like his laundry bag with his service number and his military notebook, which he offered up to the show.

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“When you’re in Japan, they’re everywhere and you take them for granted. That’s how I would spend my days off. I would go to the stationery and browse and take my notebook and draw.”

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Across the hallway, in her bedroom, his oldest daughter, Rahaf, 14, writes in a neat notebook, carefully practising her fourth language, French.

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Two years after a crushing breakup, singer-songwriter Amanda Shires is sitting in an empty hotel bar, her arms shaking as she reads a page from her notebook.

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I think if they were teaching today, the nuns would tell everyone in class to get out their pencils and notebooks and write a letter to the president.

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Related Words

• binder 
• diary 
• journal 
• pad