notebook
Americannoun
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They checked the sergeant's notebook for clues to his whereabouts.
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a book or binder of blank, often ruled, pages on which to write, especially one used by students to take notes in class.
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a book in which promissory notes are entered, registered, recorded, etc.
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Digital Technology. a small, lightweight laptop computer.
noun
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a book for recording notes or memoranda
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a book for registering promissory notes
Etymology
Origin of notebook
Example Sentences
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The main houses showed several signs that young children had recently been present, including toys, clothes and notebook pages with the crude drawings of a grade-schooler.
From Los Angeles Times
Recently, Price, Jean’s old music teacher, attended one of his shows with a notebook, telling him she’d been grading him at the end of the night.
From Los Angeles Times
She says she turned to an empty notebook, and began word doodling — scrawling random words, going wherever her pen took her.
From Los Angeles Times
She picked up her notebook and pencil—but before she could start to write, the ground began to tremble.
From Literature
"Yet those closest to him knew that what mattered most was not recognition, but connection - the magic of hearing a crowd sing back something that once lived only in his notebook."
From BBC
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