voluminous

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The professor's luggage was rather voluminous, and various boxes, bags, and portmanteaus bore the labels of many journeys.

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  1. adjective Having great volume, fullness, size, or number: a voluminous trunk; a voluminous cloud.
  2. adjective Filling or capable of filling a large volume or many volumes: the voluminous court record of the long trial.
  3. adjective Ample or lengthy in speech or writing.
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  • Dr. Rush's writings were voluminous, and embraced a variety of subjects. —  Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
  • My notes were becoming voluminous, and also my collection of useful artifacts. —  Question Quest
  • This it is which marks the superiour excellence of Johnson's Dictionary over others equally or even more voluminous, and must have made it a work of much greater mental labour than mere Lexicons, or Word-books , as the Dutch call them. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
  • His notes made during his readings grew voluminous, and also his amazement at the wealth of Beethoven's observations comparatively unknown to his admirers because hidden away, like concealed violets, in books which have been long out of print and for whose reproduction there is no urgent call. —  Beethoven: the Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words
  • Stay for the voluminous (and mostly decent) extras: A full-length doc on Wilson's career and life, a track-by-track commentary, a half-hour of live footage, an interview by Zooey Deschanel and more. —  Winnipeg Sun
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Late Latin volūminōsus, having many folds, from Latin volūmen, volūmin-, roll of writing; see volume.

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  1. from French volumineux = Spanish Portuguese Italian voluminoso, from Late Latin voluminosus, full of windings, bendings, or folds, from Latin volumen, a roll, fold: see volume.
 

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