Classbook

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A textbook used by students to study a particular subject in school or university
2. A book designed to teach or provide information for a specific academic course
3. An instructional volume intended to support learning within an organized curriculum

Etymology: "Classbook" is a plain compound of "class" and "book," and its history is as straightforward as the parts suggest. "Class" comes from Latin "classis," a term for a division of the Roman people, and it reached English in the 16th century with the sense of a group of students taught together. "Book" traces back to Old English "bōc," a word with roots in Germanic that long predates the printed volume. Put together, the two describe a book belonging to a class of pupils, the kind of text a teacher works through with a room of students.