reference work

Questions about reference work

What does reference work mean?

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

What is another word for reference work?

Close synonyms include reference book, reference, 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 work a common word?

reference work 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.