[ US /ˈtɛkst/ ]
[ UK /tˈɛkst/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
  2. the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
    pictures made the text easier to understand
  3. the words of something written
    they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech
    he wants to reconstruct the original text
    there were more than a thousand words of text
  4. 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
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