WORDBOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wordbook mean? 

• WORDBOOK (noun)
  The noun WORDBOOK has 1 sense:

1. a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings)

  Familiarity information: WORDBOOK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORDBOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reference book containing words (usually with their meanings)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("wordbook" is a kind of...):

book of facts; reference; reference book; reference work (a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wordbook"):

dictionary; lexicon (a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them)

onomasticon (a list of proper nouns naming persons or places)

vocabulary (a listing of the words used in some enterprise)

gloss; glossary (an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field)

synonym finder; thesaurus (a book containing a classified list of synonyms)