Reference and Text

Reference

Reference noun - Something mentioned in a text as providing related and especially supporting information.

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Text and reference are semantically related In some cases you can use "Text" instead a noun "Reference".

Text noun - A book used for instruction in a subject.

Usage example: the school's science curriculum suffers from a serious lack of up-to-date texts

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Reference and text are semantically related in book used in education topic. Sometimes you can use "Reference" instead a noun "Text".

Nearby Word: textual

full	full reference	full text
particular	particular reference	particular text
similar	similar reference	similar text
brief	brief reference	brief text
Other adjectives: complete, original, small, actual, entire, real, huge, little, bad, religious, funny, random, last, historical, biblical.

The accompanying text on the parchments is a reference to French author Victor Hugo's text "Les Châtiments" about the battle.

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In her case, it may be a reference to the grooming practices of ancient Egyptian nobility, since the man she's in love with is compared to the pharaoh Akhenaten at one point in the text.

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Some of the flavor text and character names suggest it is somewhere in Eastern Europe, in an obvious reference to the Bosnian War.

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Text and Reference. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/reference/text

Reference & Text. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/reference/text>.

Text or Reference. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/reference/text.

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