schoolbook

[skool-book]

noun

1. a book for study in schools. school.

Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolbook¹

First recorded in 1735–45; school ¹ + book

Example Sentences

Of everything we’d worked to attain—from our college schoolbooks, to our Sunday best, to the materials we used for teaching—much of it had been destroyed.

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For decades, the Irish-language revival was associated with obligatory schoolbook lessons, traditional folk culture and a dreary version of nationalism.

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One Russian schoolbook even justifies the invasion of Ukraine by falsely portraying it as an aggressive state run by nationalist extremists and manipulated by the West.

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Nadia is still at the other end of the street, moving slow, weighed down by schoolbooks.

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The building, which had been a schoolbook depository and a tire warehouse, was “erected brick by brick by African American masons,” the museum says.

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Related Words

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• handbook 
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• workbook