textbooks
SayTEKST-buuksUK/ˈtɛkst.bʊks/AUS/ˈtekst.bʊks/
- 1Plural of textbook.
The school ordered fresh textbooks for the upcoming year.
Several outdated textbooks were pulled from the library shelves.
Note
The plural belongs to the noun alone. Like other closed compounds, it adds -s to its head, book, and leaves text unchanged. The adjective uses never inflect: two textbook cases, several textbook landings, not textbooks cases. When a word ends in -s, it is counting actual books, the coursebooks and manuals a school orders or a library shelves.
textbooks is a form of textbook
textbook, noun: A formal manual of instruction in a particular subject, especially one used in schools or colleges. Full entry
- Forms
- textbooktextbooks plural
- Spelling
- textbook → textbooks: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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