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tome

/təʊm/US/toʊm/

tome noun: one in a series of volumes.

Noun

tome (plural tomes)

  1. One in a series of volumes.
  2. 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.2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 May 2019
    Synonyms:
    doorstop

Proper noun capitalized: Tome

Tome (plural Tomes)

  1. A surname.

tome meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

tome in Tamil

செதுக்கி, நறுக்கி, வெட்டி

tome in Bengali

tome, composition, a bound collection of writings
গ্রন্থ grontho

tome in Malayalam

book, volume, work
ബൃഹത്ഗ്രന്ഥം, പുസ്തകം, ഗ്രന്ഥം, വാല്യം, സൃഷ്ടി, രചന

Examples of tome in a sentence

  • With an embossed cover, vellum pages and brooding, mysterious artwork, this tome has a rich, premium feel.
  • Suddenly a vilesome white tome appears floating in the air in front of Lazarus' face.
  • Bookshelves groan under the bloated weight of tomes detailing Great Straight Marriages.

All 15 example sentences with tome

Synonyms of tome

Forms of tome

Noun
pluraltomes
Proper noun
pluralTomes

Plural of tome: tomes

Origin of tome

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”).

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Phrases with tome

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Questions about tome

What does tome mean?
Tome means one in a series of volumes.
What is tome in Tamil?
Tome in Tamil is செதுக்கி, நறுக்கி, வெட்டி. See Tome meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tome?
Tome can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tome?
Tome is pronounced /təʊm/ (UK).
What is the plural of tome?
The plural of tome is tomes.

Words near tome in the dictionary

  1. Tomczak
  2. Tomczaks
  3. Tomczyk
  4. Tomczyks
  5. Tomdaya
  6. tome
  7. tomeful
  8. tomefuls
  9. Tomei
  10. Tomeis
  11. Tomek

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tome (page history and authors); Tome (page history and authors); tome (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গ্রন্থ (Bengali) (page history and authors); tome (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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