Meaning of tome | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A commune and city in Chile.
2. A surname.
3. One in a series of volumes.
4. A former department of Chile.
5. A large or scholarly book.

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Examples

“The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.”

“And Sam presents Tyrion with A Song Of Ice And Fire, a tome in which Tyrion’s own role, far from that of the clever hero or Machiavellian snake, doesn’t even exist.”

“One senses, picking up Twenge’s tome — 515 pages before you get to the appendix — an attempt to quell past criticisms. “I see this book as my magnum opus,” she said.”

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