Compendium
Compendium noun - A publication containing a variety of works.
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Textbook and compendium are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Textbook" instead a noun "Compendium".
Nearby Word: compendious
Textbook
Textbook noun - A book used for instruction in a subject.
Compendium and textbook are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Compendium" instead a noun "Textbook".
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- Monster Compendium: Lupin gives you a textbook which serves as this in home console Prisoner of Azkaban.
Source: Video Game / Harry Potter -
The same story is also told about Lev Landau, the Soviet theoretical physicist who wrote a seminal textbook compendium on theoretical physics, where he would often cheerfully omit a longwinged and non-trivial proof as "obvious".
Source: Absent-Minded Professor
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Textbook and Compendium. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/compendium/textbook
Compendium & Textbook. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/compendium/textbook>.
Textbook or Compendium. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/compendium/textbook.
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