copybook

Noun

Meaning

a book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching penmanship

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

journal prime immaculate handbook best standard book model list mint arcadian correct stock ideal pure

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Antonyms

modern original off old worst inferior

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Hypernyms

book

Phrases with the word

blot one's copybook blotted your copybook copybook hand blot your copybook blotting your copybook

Examples

Moreover, anyone who starts out with a pessimistic, reactionary view of life tends to be justified by events, for Utopia never arrives and 'the gods of the copybook headings', as Kipling himself put it, always return. Source: Internet

Ellmann (1988:322) One evening, after discussing depictions of Salome throughout history, he returned to his hotel and noticed a blank copybook lying on the desk, and it occurred to him to write in it what he had been saying. Source: Internet

Words used mainly in Quebec and especially in Montreal are: Boberg, p. 36. stage for "apprenticeship" or "internship", copybook for a notebook, dépanneur or dep for a convenience store, and guichet for an ABM/ATM. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

copyability copyable copyback copybook hand copyboy copycatism