Text (literary theory) definition

(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) The main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)

"Pictures made the text easier to understand"

(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) 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"