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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"
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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"
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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"
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the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.);
"pictures made the text easier to understand"