Meaning

3 senses
  1. A student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.

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

  2. (Quebec, UK)A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers.

  3. A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. It's a copybook.

    Це зошит.

    ruЭто тетрадь.

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  2. These copybooks are the same thickness.

    ruЭти тетради одинаковой толщины.

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  3. Rewrite it in your copybook please.

    ruПерепиши это себе в тетрадь, пожалуйста.

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  4. Tear a page out of your copybook.

    ruВырви из тетради страницу.

    deReiß eine Seite aus deinem Heft.

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Origin

From copy + book.

From copy + book.

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Forms

plural: copybooks
Singularcopybook
Pluralcopybooks

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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