Synonyms of textbooks

textbooks

noun

plural of textbook

as in handbooks

a book used for instruction in a subject

one shelf in my bookcase is crammed full of my old college textbooks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• handbooks
• texts
• manuals
• dictionaries
• primers
• encyclopedias
• vocabularies
• schoolbooks
• grammars
• treatises
• readers
• guides
• guidebooks
• casebooks
• references
• bibles
• spellers
• tracts
• lexica
• wordbooks

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of textbooks

Children’s literature can humanize Black people in a way that news coverage, television, films and school textbooks and curriculum often do not, helping to combat racial bias and stereotypes. — Brooke Harris Garad, The Conversation, 14 July 2026

The forthcoming book will tell American history through the lives of everyday people, especially those whose stories have often been left out of traditional textbooks. — Amara Evering, Miami Herald, 11 July 2026

Medical textbooks of the time said that operating on a human heart was too dangerous, and there was no precedent for opening the chest, longtime Tribune science and medical reporter Ronald Kotulak wrote more than a century later. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026

To have a class project become a national program that is helping individuals with Down syndrome build real independence is the kind of real-world impact that goes beyond textbooks. — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026

In the afternoon, students will partake in book clubs that read novels — a dying art in traditional public schools, driven in part by the increasing popularity of literacy curriculum programs that favor textbooks with short reading passages over whole books. — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026

And earlier generations of doctors even opposed learning from medical textbooks, arguing that conjuring knowledge from memory forced deeper reflection. — Spencer Dorn, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

Moreover, although virtually unseen at the time, technological advances were beginning to unlock the oil lodged in very dense shale rocks, something that petroleum textbooks had previously said was commercially impossible. — Daniel Yergin, Time, 20 June 2026

Many private lenders cap borrowing at the cost of attendance (minus, including tuition, room and board and textbooks (minus other aid). — Evan Zimmer, CNBC, 17 June 2026