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tome  (tm)
n.
1. One of the books in a work of several volumes.
2. A book, especially a large or scholarly one.
[French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos, a cutting, section, from temnein, to cut; see tem- in Indo-European roots.]
tome
Noun
a large heavy book [Greek tomos a slice]
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Noun1.tometome - a (usually) large and scholarly book
book - a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good book on economics"
tome
noun book, work, title, volume, opus, publication
Translations
tome [təum] (form) n → Band m


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Here, on the cushion, lay a folio tome, probably of the Chronicles of England, or other such substantial literature; even as, in our own days, we scatter gilded volumes on the centre table, to be turned over by the casual guest.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Half an hour later I was seated in the newspaper office with a huge tome in front of me, which had been opened at the article "Weissmann versus Darwin," with the sub heading, "Spirited Protest at Vienna.
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Gilbert laid down the ponderous medical tome over which he had been poring until the increasing dusk of the March evening made him desist.
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