reference book definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic" [syn: reference book, reference, reference work, book of facts]

Moby Thesaurus

Baedeker, Yellow Pages, atlas, bibliography, business directory, calendar, casebook, catalog, catalogue raisonne, checklist, city directory, classified catalog, classified directory, concordance, cyclopedia, diatesseron, dictionary catalog, directory, encyclopedia, finding list, gazetteer, guidebook, handbook, handlist, harmony, index, itinerary, phone book, polyglot, record book, road map, roadbook, source book, studbook, telephone book, telephone directory, work of reference