school text

/skul tɛkst/
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Other forms: school texts

Definitions of school text
  1. noun
    a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
    synonyms: schoolbook, text, text edition, textbook
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    crammer
    a textbook designed for cramming
    introduction
    a basic or elementary instructional text
    primer
    an introductory textbook
    reader
    one of a series of texts for students learning to read
    McGuffey Eclectic Readers
    readers that combined lessons in reading with moralistic messages
    speller
    an introductory textbook to teach spelling
    hornbook
    a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge
    type of:
    book
    a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
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