noun
tome
tohm
noun
1
A large, heavy, or scholarly book, especially one volume in a series.
"The professor kept a shelf of dusty tomes on medieval law."
"She lugged the enormous tome home from the library."
How to Use Tome
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA thick, often serious or academic book — usually one part of a bigger set.
Common pairings
a weighty tome
a scholarly tome
a dusty tome
Word Forms
tomes plural, Tomes plural
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Etymology
From Middle French tome, from Latin tomus ("section of a larger work"), from Ancient Greek tomos ("a cutting, a roll of papyrus"), from temno, "to cut."