copybook

English

Etymology

copy +‎ book

Noun

copybook (plural copybooks)

  1. A student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.
    • 2001, Allen Kurzweil, A Case of Curiosities:
      She whipped up the cards on the floor, extinguished an unglobed candle, and ruffled open the pages of Claude's copybook.
  2. (Quebec, UK) A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers.
  3. (programming, COBOL) A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate.

Derived terms

Translations
student's exercise book — see exercise book
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