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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One of the books in a work of several volumes.
  2. n. A book, especially a large or scholarly one.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A volume forming a part of a larger work; any volume, especially a ponderous one.
  2. n. ⟨ See toom.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One in a series of volumes.
  2. n. A large or scholarly book.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a (usually) large and scholarly book

Etymologies

  1. From French, from Latin tomus ("section of larger work"), from Ancient Greek τόμος (tomos, "section, roll of papyrus, volume"), from τέμνω (temnō, "I cut, separate"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos, a cutting, section, from temnein, to cut; see tem- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. book
  1. boom

hypernyms (1)

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  1. book

same context (24)

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  1. ledger
  2. ley
  3. treatise
  4. ________________________________________________________________
  1. scroll
  2. artifacts
  3. manuscript
  4. vol
  1. folio
  2. cit
  3. volume
  4. relic
  1. biography
  2. armchair
  3. pamphlet
  4. cap
  1. painting
  2. edifice
  3. notebook
  4. parchment
  1. contraption
  2. document
  3. catalogue
  4. vii

rhymes (26)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Boehme
  2. Guillaume
  3. Home
  4. Jerome
  5. Nome
  1. Ohm
  2. Rome
  3. boehm
  4. chrome
  5. comb
  1. combe
  2. dome
  3. foam
  4. gloam
  5. gnome
  1. holm
  2. home
  3. krome
  4. loam
  5. nome
  1. ohm
  2. proteome
  3. roam
  4. shalom
  5. thome
  1. yom

reverse dictionary (14)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. tom
  2. monotome
  1. connascence
  2. cockshut time
  1. tomelet
  2. Azoic age
  1. Principe
  2. sao thome e principe monetary unit
  1. Sao Tome
  2. commercial
  1. dobra
  2. centavo
  1. volume
  2. t

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  1. SATWOTD

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  • jodi "To those west of the Shannon the word (tome) has mysteriously and inexplicably been appointed a new and utterly unrelated meaning: cool, or deadly if you speak Finglas." from Tome Magazine Aug 7, 2011

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