wordbook
Americannoun
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a book of words, usually with definitions, explanations, etc.; a dictionary.
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the libretto of an opera.
noun
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a book containing words, usually with their meanings
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a libretto for an opera
Etymology
Origin of wordbook
Example Sentences
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Each song was announced by number from the stage, the numbers ostensibly corresponding to those in a printed wordbook previously distributed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Albert Way, Camden Society, 1865, 4to, by Geoffrey the Grammarian, a Dominican of Norfolk; "Catholicon Anglicum, an English Latin wordbook, dated 1483," ed.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules
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