Hornbook

Synonyms for "hornbook" (49 found)

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Closest matches (10)

Noun(1 words)
abc book
abecedariumabecedaryalphabetalphabet bookand arithmeticbasicsbattledorecasebookelementary education

Strong matches (15)

elementsexercise bookfirst principlesfirst stepsgradusgrammarinductioninitiationintroduction
Noun(6 words)
guidehandbookinitial readerintroductory textlegal manuallegal reference

Related words (24)

Noun(5 words)
manualprimerreading primerreference texttreatise

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More general

7 entries
educational materialhandbooklegal textprimerreference workscholarly booktextbook

More specific

6 entries
Blackstone's CommentariesChitty on Contractsalphabet bookintroductory textspellerstudy guide

Collocations

6 entries
alphabet bookhornbook historyhornbook traditionlegal hornbookold hornbookreading primer

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Translations

2 translations across 2 languages.

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Dutch

1 entries
  • abecedarium noun (hornbook)

Swedish

1 entries
  • abc-bok noun (hornbook)

Sample sentences

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Yes, yes, he teaches boyes the Horne-Booke: […]

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HO′RNBOOK. n.ʃ. [horn and book] The firſt book of children, covered vvith horn to keep it unſoiled.

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By way of the hornbook Shakespeare would have learned to read, […]

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Infants learned their letters from a hornbook, a square of wood shaped like a table-tennis bat on which were pasted the alphabet, syllables and the Lord's Prayer […]

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