tome
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8.4
- noun
- /toʊm/
- Formal
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tomo
- "The dust lies thick upon these ancient tomes," he remarked and sneezed again.
- a weighty tome
- a large tome
- two tomes
This is the Seminole fictional tome of the Ghostbusters Canon.
- This is the Seminole fictional tome of the Ghostbusters Canon.
- And that's what we get in the Critique of Pure Reason, which is quite a massive tome.
- And so when you read the Dao, Lao Tzu's great tome on eternal wisdom, so much of it is paradoxical.
- I mean, really good books, but they're tomes and they're complex and they have to be studied.
- And it's, you know, I've read books that have been, you know, more serious political tomes in my time.
- And yet modern law is a obtuse, super boring tome that's indesctable towards anyone.
- It's like like that is that that's tomes this kind of how to deal with said people problems and all the variations that they come in.
Examples
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The library had an impressive collection of ancient tomes that scholars frequently consulted.
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Never before has knowledge of the fantastical realm been assembled in one tome.
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Not just some book, an ancient tome.
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Second Thoughts, a tome that has yet to generate the discussion hoped for by the author.
Academic text (2001) -
The title of her grandfather's tome was a joke between them.
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You may recognize this massive tome by Robert Brandon, Spirit of Trust, a reading of Hegel's Phenomenology.
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I've found the key to inter-dimensional travel in this seldom read scientific tome.
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We're going to be having our worlds of speculative fiction and we're going to be talking about this massive tome, Neil Stephenson's Anathem.
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And so when you read the Dao, Lao Tzu's great tome on eternal wisdom, so much of it is paradoxical.
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He was immersed in reading a hefty tome filled with medieval history.
Synonyms
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1.0
A set of written or printed pages bound together with a cover
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4.2
A book that is part of a set or series
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2.4
A book used for study in school or college
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9.3
A long, detailed written study about one subject, often by one author
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One book in a set, for example an encyclopedia
A written book often found in Latin or old texts
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Etymology
The word tome comes from the Greek tomos, which means 'a cutting' or 'a section', and you can see the same root in anatomy, where the body is 'cut' to study it. So a tome was once a 'section' of a larger work, and today it usually means a large, heavy, serious book.