Text meaning

noun

1. 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”

   Synonymstextual matter

2. 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”

3. 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”

   Synonymstextbooktext editionschoolbookschool text

4. the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)

   “pictures made the text easier to understand”