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Definition of tome in English: tomenoun təʊmtoʊm humorous A book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one. 〈主幽默〉书；大部头书；（有学术价值的）巨著 一本沉甸甸的大部头书。 Example sentencesExamples - It looks, in short, like a general reader's fantasy of a scholarly tome.
- Heavy tomes covered much of the walls but he only ran a hand over a few of the calfskin covers.
- Perhaps now is the time for me to eat my words, as it seems that the latest tome is much darker than the previous books.
- After flipping through the heavy pages of the tome for nearly half an hour, she had to admit defeat.
- At times he seems caught out like a student tied to an unworkable premise for the sake of writing a heavy tome.
- In my wandering through second hand book stores, I have come across some unusual tomes.
- Most of its members were in the library, consulting tomes and magazines for the debate the next day.
- If you believe a public library is a majestic bastion of encyclopedic tomes, then you have not been inside one for a very long time.
- You had to scan the microfiche or even thumb through dusty tomes at the local library or tax assessor's office.
- Why pay £20 to lug around a weighty tome when you can copy the bits you need for free?
- He was quite gracious and signed books leaving weird little messages in each of our tomes.
- He struggled under the weight of the heavy tomes, his twiggy arms flailing pitifully.
- As part of the American experiment, public libraries brought the wisdom of the ancient and modern tomes to the common man.
- Bookcases filled with tomes of indecipherable writing lined the walls of the library.
- There are excellent tomes on Museums and on Museology, books on arts and crafts, on forests, natural history and so on.
- It is a weighty tome which is stimulating and challenging to read but is, in the end, disappointing.
- The bald title suggests a cookery book or perhaps one of those popular science tomes based on a wacky premise.
- These tomes are far too serious for his feeble intellect.
- It's much better than other reference tomes you might buy, and free.
- I doubt if he's read a book since he left Oxford, other than legal tomes.
Synonyms volume, book, work, opus, writing, publication, title
OriginEarly 16th century (denoting one volume of a larger work): from French, via Latin from Greek tomos 'section, roll of papyrus, volume'; related to temnein 'to cut'. Rhymesbrome, chrome, comb, Crome, dome, foam, gnome, holm, Holme, hom, home, Jerome, loam, Nome, ohm, om, roam, Rome Definition of tome in US English: tomenountōmtoʊm humorous A book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one. 〈主幽默〉书；大部头书；（有学术价值的）巨著 一本沉甸甸的大部头书。 Example sentencesExamples - It's much better than other reference tomes you might buy, and free.
- After flipping through the heavy pages of the tome for nearly half an hour, she had to admit defeat.
- It looks, in short, like a general reader's fantasy of a scholarly tome.
- Heavy tomes covered much of the walls but he only ran a hand over a few of the calfskin covers.
- There are excellent tomes on Museums and on Museology, books on arts and crafts, on forests, natural history and so on.
- Bookcases filled with tomes of indecipherable writing lined the walls of the library.
- If you believe a public library is a majestic bastion of encyclopedic tomes, then you have not been inside one for a very long time.
- He was quite gracious and signed books leaving weird little messages in each of our tomes.
- I doubt if he's read a book since he left Oxford, other than legal tomes.
- You had to scan the microfiche or even thumb through dusty tomes at the local library or tax assessor's office.
- Most of its members were in the library, consulting tomes and magazines for the debate the next day.
- Perhaps now is the time for me to eat my words, as it seems that the latest tome is much darker than the previous books.
- At times he seems caught out like a student tied to an unworkable premise for the sake of writing a heavy tome.
- As part of the American experiment, public libraries brought the wisdom of the ancient and modern tomes to the common man.
- The bald title suggests a cookery book or perhaps one of those popular science tomes based on a wacky premise.
- In my wandering through second hand book stores, I have come across some unusual tomes.
- These tomes are far too serious for his feeble intellect.
- It is a weighty tome which is stimulating and challenging to read but is, in the end, disappointing.
- He struggled under the weight of the heavy tomes, his twiggy arms flailing pitifully.
- Why pay £20 to lug around a weighty tome when you can copy the bits you need for free?
Synonyms volume, book, work, opus, writing, publication, title
OriginEarly 16th century (denoting one volume of a larger work): from French, via Latin from Greek tomos ‘section, roll of papyrus, volume’; related to temnein ‘to cut’. |