storybook

sto·ry·book

(stôr′ē-bo͝ok′)

A book containing a collection of stories, usually for children.

adj.

Occurring in or resembling the style or content of a storybook: storybook characters; a storybook romance.

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storybook

(ˈstɔːrɪˌbʊk)

(Journalism & Publishing) a book containing stories, esp for children

adj

unreal or fantastic: a storybook world.

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sto•ry•book

(ˈstɔr iˌbʊk, ˈstoʊr-)

n.

1. a book that contains a story or stories, esp. for children.

adj.

2. idealized in the manner of a storybook: a storybook romance.

[1705–15]

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Noun

storybook - a book containing a collection of stories (usually for children)

book - a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good book on economics"

Translations

Lesebuch

libro di fiabe

storybook

[ˈstɔːrɪbʊk]

A. N → libro m de cuentos

B. ADJ a storybook ending → un final como el de una novela

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

storybook

story book, story-book [ˈstɔːribʊk] n → livre m d'histoires, livre m de contesstoryline story line [ˈstɔːrilaɪn] n [film] → scénario m; [book, play] → intrigue f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

storybook

[ˈstɔːrɪˌbʊk] n → libro di racconti

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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None of your storybook writers will ever make as good a book as this, I warrant me.

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But as my little conductress, with her hair of gold and her frock of blue, danced before me round corners and pattered down passages, I had the view of a castle of romance inhabited by a rosy sprite, such a place as would somehow, for diversion of the young idea, take all color out of storybooks and fairytales.

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UPS Philippines and Air21 recently formalized their partnership with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) for the program, 'Sa Pagbasa, May Pag-asa [Hope in Reading],' a storybook donation campaign for public-school students.