"text-book" meaning in English

See text-book in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: text-books [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} text-book (plural text-books)
  1. Obsolete form of textbook. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: textbook
    Sense id: en-text-book-en-noun-DeGpONw1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1891, Charles Coppens, A Brief Text-book of Logic and Mental Philosophy:",
          "text": "I read the work and I consider it most useful for our colleges as a text-book, and of great advantage for those who have finished their studies, as well as for Catholics in general.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of textbook."
      ],
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          "textbook",
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
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  "word": "text-book"
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  ],
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      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English obsolete forms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
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