Noun
1. 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"2. 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"3. 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"4. the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.);
"pictures made the text easier to understand"