tome Definition
tome (tōm)
noun
- Obsolete any volume of a work of several volumes
- a book, esp. a large, scholarly or ponderous one
Etymology: Fr < L tomus < Gr tomos, piece cut off, hence part of a book, volume < temnein, to cut: see -tomy
tome Synonyms
tome Usage Examples
Preposition: of
page: Derry's second book, another large tome of 476 pages, is essentially a volume of philosophy.
Converse of object
- write: He has also written a vast tome called the ' Structure of Singing ' which is outside almost anyone's budget!
- read: I've just embarked upon the journey that is reading this tome.
- publish: What it has done is to publish a massive tome of text which is not indexed in any way.
- produce: Husband and wife, William and Sophie have produced a beautiful tome which tells you all you need to know.
- find: At the book shop you will find nearly every educational tome you will need.
- have: I have many tomes encountered case where people do not know where they are saving their word processing documents.
Adjective modifier
- weighty: I suspect far more people became better informed from the site visit than any weighty tome.
- hefty: Today it is a hefty tome with articles covering every possible angle of LRGS life.
- dusty: It's as thorough an examination as any lawyer might ever need to read But this is no dusty tome.
- mighty: A mighty tome, most of which goes right over my head!
- scholarly: It looks, in short, like a general reader's fantasy of a scholarly tome.
- definitive: Amazon Customer Reviews: The definitive tome on the late 50's and early 60's.
Preposition: on
shelf: I discovered an old tattered copy among my father's faded leather-bound tomes on a shelf in our hallway.
Noun used with modifier
- sao: The Google-backed company and others like it are looking to allow people to call to sao tome communicate more cheaply using the Internet.
- table: The Game Cookbook is very beautifully illustrated, but this is no mere coffee table tome.
- page: What Philip Norman brings to this 400 plus page tome are three essential ingredients.
- coffee: The Game Cookbook is very beautifully illustrated, but this is no mere coffee table tome.
- coffee-table: Printed on recycled paper using vegetable inks, it's this year's must-have for the coffee-table tome.
- reference: I will never forget the musty smell of the place, especially in the back rooms where we kept hundreds of ancient reference tomes.
Browse dictionary entries near tome
- ‹ tomcod
- ‹ tomcat
- ‹ tombstone
- ‹ tomboy
- ‹ Tombouctou
- ‹ tombolo
- ‹ tombola
- ‹ Tombigbee
- ‹ Tombaugh
- ‹ tombac
- Tome Pires ›
- -tome ›
- tomentose ›
- tomentum ›
- tomfool ›
- tomfoolery ›
- -tomic ›
- Tomlinson, ›
- Tomlinson, (Alfred) Charles ›
- Tomlinson, H ›

