Synonyms of texts

texts

noun

plural of text

as in handbooks

a book used for instruction in a subject

the school's science curriculum suffers from a serious lack of up-to-date texts

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of texts

According to Jewish tradition, worn out sacred texts can’t be casually discarded; instead, they are stored in a geniza, a repository usually located within a synagogue or buried at a Jewish cemetery. — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026

On Friday, the South Florida Muslim Federation sent out emails and texts encouraging community members to vote together after Jumu’ah, or the weekly prayer held by Muslims on Friday afternoons. — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 1 Nov. 2026

Additionally, the workers must hand over any communications — including self-deleting texts from apps such as Signal — related to the office’s efforts to block noncitizen voting. — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2026

Police have not responded to phone messages, texts or emails. — ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Escola is pulling from Muppet ephemera as much as the main filmic texts. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2026

To purchase Moorish texts, for example, his great-grandfather traveled all the way from the isolated Mauritanian desert city of Chinguetti to Andalusia, an autonomous community in southern Spain. — Kang-Chun Cheng, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2026

In January 2019, Jon Ossoff’s cellphone lit up with a frenzy of calls and texts. — Ian Ward, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2026

Since the news about Christina Applegate’s multiple sclerosis misdiagnosis was released, texts from friends in disbelief have been popping up on my phone. — Lindsay Karp, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026