text

Noun

• the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
  • pictures made the text easier to understand
    

• a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
  • his economics textbook is in its tenth edition
    
  • the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy
    

• a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon
  • the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon
    

• the words of something written
  • there were more than a thousand words of text
    
  • they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech
    
  • he wants to reconstruct the original text
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  textbook , text edition , schoolbook , school text , textual matter
• Antonyms: 
  trade book , trade edition