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Meaning of textbook in English

textbook
noun [ C ]
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/ˈtekst.bʊk/ us
/ˈtekst.bʊk/
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a book that contains detailed information about a subject for people who are studying that subject:
a science textbook
 
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textbook
adjective [ before noun ]
uk
/ˈtekst.bʊk/ us
/ˈtekst.bʊk/
(of an example of something) extremely good, or thought to be usual or typical:
That was a textbook goal from Taylor.
It was a textbook example of how to deal with the problem.
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textbook
noun [ C ]
us
/ˈtekstˌbʊk/

textbook noun [C] (BOOK)

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a book that provides reading and exercises for a school or college course:
medical textbooks
textbook
adjective [ not gradable ]
us
/ˈteks·bʊk/

textbook adjective [not gradable] (TYPICAL)

usual or typical:
The group's rise to stardom is a textbook case of how to make it in the recording industry.
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Examples of textbook

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The search for a new standard in micropalaeontology textbooks continues.
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The information in textbooks also becomes outdated quickly, and therefore details of recent research and developments are not always included.
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Despite being faced with a complex and rapidly evolving society, the prejudice that is apparent on the pages of textbooks threatens to stultify research.
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The index is insufficient, but this is a fault of many textbooks.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, written assessment gets most space, though assessment of talk gets slightly more attention than in most textbooks.
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Too often, global textbooks are used which are not adapted to one nationality.
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The theory of commodity demand was designed originally to study the consumer who appears today in elementary economics textbooks.
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They simply teach the textbooks that are assigned to them.
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Most of the time teachers rely on textbooks and blackboards as their main (if not only) resources.
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Not only are environmental resources only perfunctorily referred to in economics textbooks, they are also cheerfully ignored in economists' public pronouncements.
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What we now expect from textbooks on medical ethics has changed accordingly.
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Much feminist attention has been focused on the sexist bias of many of the textbooks used in schools.
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The issue of curriculum and subject choice goes deeper than the portrayal of women in school textbooks, however.
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In psychology textbooks current at the time, it was rare to find discussions of personal characteristics such as emotional response or motivation.
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A frequent fault is to read out passages from textbooks as though they represented the last word on the law.
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textbook

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biology textbook
They found the band's name in a biology textbook and claimed it because it sounded sufficiently evil to them.
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college textbook
College students are known to resell books back though college textbook bookstores.
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digital textbook
The creation of interactive and customizable content is an important part of digital textbook development.
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Translations of textbook

in Chinese (Traditional)
教科書，教材，課本, 典範的, 合乎規範的…
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教科书，教材，课本, 典范的, 合乎规范的…
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libro de texto, libro de texto [masculine, singular]…
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livro texto, livro escolar, livro didático…
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अभ्यासाचे पुस्तक / एखादा विषय अभ्यासताना त्या विषयाची तपशीलवार माहिती देणारे पुस्तक…
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教科書, テキスト, 教科書（きょうかしょ）…
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ders kitabı…
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manuel [masculine] scolaire, manuel…
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llibre de text…
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studieboek…
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அந்த விஷயத்தைப் படிக்கும் நபர்களுக்கான ஒரு விஷயத்தைப் பற்றிய விரிவான தகவல்களைக் கொண்ட ஒரு புத்தகம்…
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पाठ्यपुस्तक…
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પાઠ્યપુસ્તક…
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lærebog…
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lärobok…
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buku teks…
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das Lehrbuch…
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lærebok [masculine], lærebok…
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نصابی کتاب…
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підручник, посібник…
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టెక్స్ట్ బుక్…
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পাঠ্যবই, একটি বই যা সেই বিষয়ে অধ্যয়নরত ব্যক্তিদের জন্য একটি বিষয় সম্পর্কে বিস্তারিত তথ্য রয়েছে…
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učebnice…
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buku teks…
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หนังสือเรียน…
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sách giáo khoa…
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podręcznik…
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교과서…
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libro di testo, manuale…
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