According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
TEXTBOOK
casebook, textbook
(adjective) according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical; “a casebook schizophrenic”; “a textbook example”
textbook, text, text edition, schoolbook, school text
(noun) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
textbook (plural textbooks)
A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.
Adjective
textbook (comparative more textbook, superlative most textbook)
Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
Source: Wiktionary
Text"-book`, n.
1. A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.
2. A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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