exercise book

noun

1. a booklet or book having exercises pertaining to a school subject and blank space for practice.

exercise book

noun

1. a notebook used by pupils and students

Word History and Origins

Origin of exercise book¹

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

And Miss Winter opened a French exercise-book, certainly containing anything but elegant specimens of penmanship.

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Anna quickly took out of a table-drawer a thin exercise-book, ten pages, no more, and held it out to Aratov.

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I may show it to Jonathan some day if there is in it anything worth sharing, but it is really an exercise book.

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But hardly any boy could have been set to write five consecutive lines of Latin, not taken from the exercise book.

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Presently Hansie came with her contribution, a thick exercise-book and a couple of pencils.

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