The meaning of TOME is book; especially : a large or scholarly book. How to use tome in a sentence. Did you know?
Festival to give a reading of your new tome and found that, entirely because of a struggle between competing ideologies, your luggage had to stay at home.
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/ toʊm / Add to word list a large, heavy book (Definition of tome from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Define tome. tome synonyms, tome pronunciation, tome translation, English dictionary definition of tome. n. 1. One of the books in a work of several volumes. 2. A book, especially a large or scholarly one. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,...
Noun tome (plural tomes) One in a series of volumes. A large or scholarly book. Synonym: (humorous) doorstop The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.
A large or scholarly book. The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.
tome (n.) 1510s, "a single volume forming part of a multi-volume work," from French tome (16c.) or directly from Latin tomus "section of a book, tome," from Greek tomos "volume, section of a book," originally "a section, piece cut off," from temnein "to cut" (from PIE root *tem- "to cut").
A tome is a large, heavy book, often a scholarly or academic work. She was intimidated by the thick tome on quantum physics. He spent hours in the library studying a dusty old tome about ancient history. The tome was so large that it required both hands to carry it.