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DictionarytomeLarge book
noun

tome

TOHM/təʊm/

A large, heavy book, often scholarly.

The massive tome rests partly open, showing its thick pages and substantial binding.

A single massive scholarly book rests partly open on a plain tabletop, its thick page block, broad covers, and substantial binding making its size and weight unmistakable.
Etymology
tomeGreekpiece cut off; section of a book

Greek tomos pictured a section as a piece cut off. Tome first meant one volume of a larger work, then came to suggest a large, ponderous book.

In context

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he has a new book coming out which is a tome i've seen the print of it it's over 500 pages i think the footnotes are more than 100 pages
An Evening with Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

More examples

  • The professor consults a dusty tome on ancient law.
  • His latest cookbook is a six-hundred-page tome.
  • Three leather-bound tomes fill the bottom shelf.

Forms

tome · tomes

Similar words

book
Book is broader and implies no particular size or weight.
volume
Volume often identifies a book within a set, regardless of size.