tome

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Pronunciation

/təʊm/

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/təʊm/ · /toʊm/

Definition of tome

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

One in a series of volumes.

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noun

One in a series of volumes.
A large or scholarly book.

“The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.”
“And Sam presents Tyrion with A Song Of Ice And Fire, a tome in which Tyrion’s own role, far from that of the clever hero or Machiavellian snake, doesn’t even exist.”
“One senses, picking up Twenge’s tome — 515 pages before you get to the appendix — an attempt to quell past criticisms. “I see this book as my magnum opus,” she said.”

name

A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle French tome, from Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, separate”).