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TOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tome mean? 

TOME (noun)
  The noun TOME has 1 sense:

1. a (usually) large and scholarly bookplay

  Familiarity information: TOME used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TOME (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A (usually) large and scholarly book

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("tome" is a kind of...):

book (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together))


 Context examples 


The high, bulging shelves of heavy tomes humbled him and at the same time stimulated him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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. Lively Proceedings.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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