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# storybook

«storybook» in Mova's school dictionary: **a book of stories for children, often with pictures** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a storybook, storybooks); adjective (storybook — like in a fairy tale)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A storybook is a book of stories for children, often with pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storybook/#m1)

2) (adjective) Storybook describes something perfect or magical, like in a fairy tale: a storybook ending. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storybook/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school and at home a storybook is read at bedtime or in reading time. «A storybook castle» or «a storybook ending» tells the reader that things look or end like a fairy tale, happily and perfectly.

### examples

- Mum read me a storybook before bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storybook/#x1)
- The library has a shelf of storybooks for little ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storybook/#x2)
- The village looked like a storybook picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storybook/#x3)
- Their friendship had a storybook ending. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storybook/#x4)
- I drew my own storybook about a dragon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storybook/#x5)
- The storybook was full of bright pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storybook/#x6)

### note

Written as one word. Countable: a storybook, storybooks. As an adjective it goes before a noun (a storybook wedding).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «storybook» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storybook/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.