1
: book
especially
: a large or scholarly book
2
: a volume forming part of a larger work
1
: part : segment
myotome
2
: cutting instrument
microtome
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Examples of tome in a Sentence
Noun
a long tome on European history
picked up a thick tome on the Roman Empire at a used book store
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
Kleitman spent six years writing the tome, which covered virtually every study since the 1910s, including his own.
—Discover Magazine, 14 June 2024
His desire to control his own story may account for why his book about his years hiding under the fatwa, 2012’s Joseph Anton: A Memoir, was so artless, a tome of grievances and gripes; that was Great Man Rushdie laying claim to his own existence as intellectual property.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2024
In this extraordinarily ambitious tome, Mazzuca attributes the political and economic shortcomings of contemporary Latin America to the complex interactions of geography and history.
—Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
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Noun
Nearby was a tome on Ecuador’s judicial system and another on agronomy.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
Kleitman spent six years writing the tome, which covered virtually every study since the 1910s, including his own.
—Discover Magazine, 14 June 2024
His desire to control his own story may account for why his book about his years hiding under the fatwa, 2012’s Joseph Anton: A Memoir, was so artless, a tome of grievances and gripes; that was Great Man Rushdie laying claim to his own existence as intellectual property.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2024
In this extraordinarily ambitious tome, Mazzuca attributes the political and economic shortcomings of contemporary Latin America to the complex interactions of geography and history.
—Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
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“Tome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tome. Accessed 27 Jun. 2024.
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tome
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: a big thick book
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