Definition of text

• the words of something written; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayors speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text"
• 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"
• 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"