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say it: tekst
text is a noun meaning "the words of something written". It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
“pictures made the text easier to understand”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for text come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.