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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But Judge Gregory Carro allowed at trial a gun and notebook with Mangione's purported writings, viewed as vital to the prosecution.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
I’ve got a whole notebook full from the past week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
I had my notebook open beside me, ready to catalogue the toast’s faults.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Holding her camera and notebook, archaeologist Micheline Kurdi walked through the ruins to document the site's state and plan the first "quick interventions" to restore it, she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
He held up a notebook with a Mirror Tech logo on the front and a pad of sticky notes on the inside cover.
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
Thus, we’ve had microhistories of coal, sugar, rain, dust, cotton, butter, notebooks, eating utensils and bookmaking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
I take out my history book and notebooks and organize them in my backpack.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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