wordbook

[ wurd-book ]

noun

1. a book of words, usually with definitions, explanations, etc.; a dictionary.
2. the libretto of an opera.

wordbook

/ ˈwɜːdˌbʊk /

noun

1. a book containing words, usually with their meanings
2. a libretto for an opera

Word History and Origins

Origin of wordbook¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; word + book

Example Sentences

Of course, he didn’t have any idea what the hell she was talking about either, but he started laughing while the rest of us were still looking up “suppuration” on the feed English-to-English wordbook.

From Literature

Pictures remain a top way to attract users, which is as it should be: it’s a Facebook, not a Wordbook.

From Forbes

It is surrounded by a Caesar's ransom of rare editions�a first edition of Dante's Inferno, Caxton's Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, a first folio of Shakespeare, one of the three known copies of the wordbook of Handel's Messiah�but it is the most valued.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each song was announced by number from the stage, the numbers ostensibly corresponding to those in a printed wordbook previously distributed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Albert Way, Camden Society, 1865, 4to, by Geoffrey the Grammarian, a Dominican of Norfolk; "Catholicon Anglicum, an English Latin wordbook, dated 1483," ed.

From Project Gutenberg

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