英和和英

語源

From text +‎ book.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, 米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈtɛkst.bʊk/
• (Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈtekst.bʊk/

名詞

textbook (plural textbooks)

1. (education) A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

別の表記

• text-book (obsolete)

派生語

形容詞

textbook (comparative more textbook, superlative most textbook)

1. (literally) Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
   • 2011, Thomas Karl Dietrich, The Culture of Astronomy: Origin of Number, Geometry, Science, Law, and Religion, page 347:

     These figures are just too textbook, or papyrus-like, as if this information came off of a shelf in the Library of Alexandria

2. (figuratively) Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.

   textbook case

   • 2003, Felice Picano, A house on the ocean, a house on the bay:

     Every night had been clear and star-studded, the progression of the moon through its phases absolutely textbook, its dance with the planets visible in the ecliptic...

   • 2011, Inge Leimberg, 'What May Words Say ... ?': A Reading of the The Merchant of Venics, page 250:

     Involuntarily it is practiced all the time, for instance when Shylock at the beginning of the trial describes himself as a very textbook example of a very bad and very common illness.

   • 2024, Nozomu Mochitsuki, Tearmoon Empire, volume 12, page 10:

     It's absolutely textbook! / The amount of trust Mia had in her future self was infinitesimal. Thus, she couldn't help but feel like there was something off about this name. / It's too textbook!

   • 2025, Sheena King, Submerged: On Healing from Abuse While Navigating a Lifetime of Imprisonment, page 66:

     It seemed too textbook, too talk-showish, but it was true.

3. (figuratively) Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook.

   Well done everyone, the tree fell exactly where we planned. That was textbook.

   • 2021, Dana Polan, Dreams of Flight: "The Great Escape" in American Film and Culture, page 140:

     […] Hilts and the commandant spar verbally in a very textbook shot/reverse shot scene, back and forth, “over the shoulder” of one interlocutor and then the other […]

4. (figuratively) Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience.

   He has a textbook understanding of company law but no practical experience of litigation.

   • 2023, Pamela Aronson, Matthew R. Fleming, Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life:

     So a lot of women will be very textbook if something meets the definition of sexual harassment, whereas a lot of men are more laissez-faire.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:textbook.

参考

• casebook (adjectival form)

参照

• textbook on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “textbook”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.