different between textbook vs storybook

English

Etymology

text +? book

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?kst.b?k/

Noun

textbook (plural textbooks)

1. A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

Alternative forms

• text-book (obsolete)

Translations

Adjective

textbook (comparative more textbook, superlative most textbook)

1. Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
   • 2000, Okasha El Daly, Janet Starkey, Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence

     They are mentioned in his flat, textbook voice, alongside schoolroom descriptions of topography and assessments of economic significance.
2. Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
   • 2003, Robert J Art, Patrick M Cronin, The United States and coercive diplomacy

     In many ways the Korean nuclear crisis is a textbook example of coercive diplomacy — its strengths as well as the risks inherent in such a strategy.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:textbook.

Translations

English

Etymology

story +? book

Noun

storybook (plural storybooks)

1. A book containing stories, especially children's stories.

Derived terms

• storybookish

Translations

Adjective

storybook (not comparable)

1. As in a story for children; pleasant and idealized, or having a happy conclusion.
   • 2006, Tammy Ash Perkins, The best of Hawai?i wedding book: a guide to Maui, Lana?i, and Kaua?i (page 112)

     I remember one couple that truly created their own storybook wedding by selecting a remote waterfall as their wedding location.