text in WordNet English dictionary

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"
   textbook  text  text edition  schoolbook  school text 
   
2. the words of something written
   "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"
   text  textual matter 
   
3. the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
   "pictures made the text easier to understand"
   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"
   text