Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun text

4 senses of text

Sense 1
text, textual matter -- (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"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text")
       => matter -- (written works (especially in books or magazines); "he always took some reading matter with him on the plane")

Sense 2
text -- (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")
       => passage -- (a section of text; particularly a section of medium length)

Sense 3
textbook, text, text edition, schoolbook, school text -- (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")
       => book -- (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good book on economics")

Sense 4
text -- (the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text easier to understand")
       => matter -- (written works (especially in books or magazines); "he always took some reading matter with him on the plane")