textbook

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: text=book

OXFORD DICTIONARY

textbook, n. & adj.
--n. a book for use in studying, esp. a standard account of a subject.
--attrib.adj.
1 exemplary, accurate (cf. COPYBOOK).
2 instructively typical.

Derivative

textbookish adj.

THESAURUS

textbook

abecedarium, abecedary, alphabet book, battledore, casebook, exercise book, gradus, grammar, hornbook, manual, manual of instruction, primer, reader, schoolbook, speller, spelling book, t, text, workbook

ROGET THESAURUS

textbook

Compendium

N compend, compendium, abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note, excerpt, synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus, album, scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book, extracts, excerpta, cuttings, fugitive pieces, fugitive writing, spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta, compilation, recapitulation, resume, review, abbreviation, abbreviature, contraction, shortening, compression, compendious, synoptic, analectic, abrege, abridged, variorum, in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words, it lies in a nutshell.