noun
- The words of something written.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: textual matter
- A passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon.
- usage: "the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon"
- A book prepared for use in schools or colleges.
- usage: "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"
- synonyms: textbook, text edition, schoolbook, school text
- The main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.. )
- usage: "pictures made the text easier to understand"
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