Reader
Textbook
Textbook noun - A book used for instruction in a subject.
Usage example: one shelf in my bookcase is crammed full of my old college textbooks
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- This Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal panel is a textbook example of screwing with the reader's expectation so many times it makes you dizzy.
Source: Zig-Zagging Trope -
But later, in a textbook example, Amir (and the reader) are alerted to Amir's old friend Rahim Khan's fatal illness by his coughing up blood.
Source: Incurable Cough of Death -
Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a textbook on the medium of comic books — in the form of a comic book whose main character (McCloud himself) addresses the reader throughout, discussing the techniques the book also demonstrates.
Source: No Fourth Wall
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Textbook and Reader. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/reader/textbook
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Textbook or Reader. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/reader/textbook.
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