Notebook Definition: Pronunciation, Daily Phrases & Practice

It will be easier to define “notebook” when you read these sentences:

Sometimes you need other words, and that is where “notebook” synonyms enter the stage.. Depending on what you’re talking about, you will find many connected terms.

Related nouns: journal notepad diary exercise book

Synonyms (contextual): workbook notepad

Common collocations: spiral notebook school notebook write in a notebook

The above patterns of use will guide you in talking about a notebook or its use and explaining what you would want to do with it.

With adjectives: blank notebook small notebook new notebook lined notebook

With verbs: carry a notebook buy a notebook open a notebook fill a notebook

With nouns (noun + noun): notebook page notebook paper notebook cover

There aren’t many actual idioms; however, there are a few phrases people say where the “notebook” description doesn’t mean a book with empty pages.

• Mental notebook — when you try to remember something without writing it down.

  I’m putting that in my mental notebook for next time.

• Notebook computer — another name for a laptop. They called it that because it’s small like a notebook.

  She bought a notebook computer for traveling.

Let’s see what you remember by completing the exercises that help you practice your understanding of the description of “notebook,” its collocations, and idioms. 

Here’s how to say “notebook” in the most-spoken European languages.

Notebooks have more history than you’d think. Let’s dive into these fascinating facts to know how many notebook pages a person can fill and when the most popular types we use now appeared.

• Leonardo da Vinci filled over 13,000 notebook pages.

  The man wrote everything down: drawings, ideas, random thoughts. A lot of his notebooks survived for 500 years somehow. Museums keep them locked up now. He also wrote backwards, which seems like way too much effort, but whatever worked for him.

• Spiral notebooks started in 1934.

  Before that, notebooks just fell apart after you used them for a while. Pages would come loose, bindings would break. Then someone at Holley Manufacturing invented the spiral thing and suddenly notebooks lasted longer.

• It’s been strange how much Moleskine has become mainstream in recent times.

  There is this whole story of writers, like Hemingway, using these black notebooks; the original company discontinued them in 1986 but an Italian company started them back up in 1997; and then everyone pretends that they are something special when talking about them.

Let us take the opinion of some scholars of the “notebook” in English and see how much they value the space in those blank pages.