textbook
noun
a book used by students as a standard work for a particular branch of study.
textbooks
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pluralof textbook.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Viktoria Haidai surveys the mangled remains of the printing press, which should have been busy churning out textbooks ready for the new school year.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Eight million books were destroyed in the blaze that followed, including 600,000 school textbooks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Some say customers aren’t exactly paying for innovation, but rather for decades of familiarity on the educator side — along with textbooks that build the calculators into their curricula.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The possibility that gluons carry baryon number would overturn the standard simplified description found in many textbooks.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The school gave me the textbooks I need, but Mom and I had to go out to get pencils, pens, binders, and paper ourselves.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
