noun
Freq #104546
Meanings
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noun
a book written or selected for students to use in school; a textbook
Her name was still written inside every old schoolbook on the shelf.
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Etymology
A compound of school + book, recorded from the early nineteenth century. It names a book intended for classroom teaching or study and overlaps closely with textbook, while often suggesting a book associated specifically with a child's school years.