classbook

[ klas-book, klahs- ]

noun

1. a book kept by a teacher recording student attendance, grades, etc.
2. a souvenir book of a graduating class, containing photographs, articles, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of classbook¹

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35; class + book

Example Sentences

"Pit's" classbook prophecies, both at William Penn Charter prep school and later at Princeton, were that he would wind up as Chief Justice of the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thirty-seven years earlier, his Annapolis classbook had taken a curiously prophetic bearing on the sailor who was to lead his nation out of the greatest naval disaster in its history.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Welch Rabbits," a cartoon in a Yale classbook, depicted Dr. Welch as a magician.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes, also, Mr. Middleton came in with his book or paper, and occasionally, from force of habit, he would take a classbook and hear a recitation.

From Project Gutenberg

I have been requested by several priests to prepare an abridgment of the "Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism" that would be suitable as a classbook for children who have been confirmed or who have completed the study of the Baltimore Catechism No. 2.

From Project Gutenberg