reference book

Questions about reference book

What does reference book mean?

reference book means "a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts".

What is another word for reference book?

Close synonyms include reference, reference work, book of facts. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reference book a common word?

reference book is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.