schoolbook

[ skool-book ]
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noun
  1. a book for study in schools.

Origin of schoolbook

1
First recorded in 1735–45; school1 + book

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How to use schoolbook in a sentence

  • By text-book we do not mean a formal school-book, but a book with a clear method, a capital style, and adequate information.

    Girls and Women | Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}
  • It bears an inscription which seems to scan equally well in school-book Latin or colloquial Italian.

  • It is at least not a school book; and it is not a bad story book, horrible as some of the stories are.

  • Well, for picked-up, school-book navigation, it is certainly a feat—to run over six hundred miles and stop over soundings.

    The Wreck of the Titan | Morgan Robertson
  • So Heidi ran in and brought out her school-book and writing things and her own little stool.

    Heidi | Johanna Spyri