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Grammar : Noun
Spell : tohm
Phonetic Transcription : toÊŠm

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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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