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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : tohm |
| Phonetic Transcription : toʊm |
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Origin :- 1510s, from Middle French tome, from Latin tomus "section of a book, tome," from Greek tomos "volume, section of a book," originally "section, piece cut off," from temnein "to cut," from PIE *tom-/*tem- "to cut" (cf. second element in Latin aestimare "to value, appraise," Old Church Slavonic tina "to cleave, split," Middle Irish tamnaim "I cut off," Welsh tam "morsel"). Originally "a single volume of a multi-volume work;" sense of "a large book" is attested from 1570s.
- noun large, scholarly book
- But presently he will chance upon some tome whose appeal is irresistible.
- Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan
- When the boys came in, the little girl said, shyly, "Tome and tell me about the nets."
- Extract from : « A Sailor's Lass » by Emma Leslie
- Hystoriale: But this tyme is so tore (inconvenient), and we no tome have .
- Extract from : « The Bruce » by John Barbour
- Beausobre in his History of Manicheanism, tome 2, book 4, chap.
- Extract from : « Pagan Origin of Partialist Doctrines » by John Claudius Pitrat
- Here, as you see me now, in tropical but dripping diffidence, I am the author of that tome.
- Extract from : « Kilo » by Ellis Parker Butler
- They are printed in the Monumenta Germaniae, leges, tome i. .
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 » by Various
- Did you happen to notice the tome sticking out of his coat pocket?
- Extract from : « Queed » by Henry Sydnor Harrison
- A man at a table opened a tome which might have contained all the names in Paris.
- Extract from : « Lazarre » by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
- He refers the reader to the Mmoires de la Duchesse d'Abrants, tome viii.
- Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 118, January 31, 1852 » by Various
- To others he might bring life and health and joy, on the morrow; but tome he would never rise.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
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