Tome: meaning, pronunciation and examples
Tome noun. A book, especially a large, heavy and serious one.
How to say it
TOHM/ˈtəʊm/
1 syllable. Forms: tomes.
Tome in a sentence
He propped the door open with a dusty tome on medieval law.
Her biography of the composer is a thousand-page tome, but it reads like a thriller.
Similar and opposite
Similar:
- volume
- book
- opus
Where tome comes from
From Greek tomos, a slice or section, hence one volume of a larger work.
Test yourself
Which word fills the gap?
Her biography of the composer is a thousand-page _____, but it reads like a thriller.
- pilcrow
- lipogram
- tome
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tome: Her biography of the composer is a thousand-page tome, but it reads like a thriller.