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
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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Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
Phew! Related Articles The 306-page French language tome, published by Editions Fayard, debuted Thursday night at 7L, Lagerfeld’s famous Left Bank bookstore, where Gaubert signed copies for the likes of Rick Owens, Michèle Lamy, Elie Top, Martine Sitbon, Carine Roitfeld and Sarah Andelman.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 21 Mar. 2025
Fans of physical media can expect to peruse some 5,000 titles, including ones from local chefs, rare and esoteric selections and historic tomes dating from World War II and earlier.
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
Producer Judd Apatow is also interviewed for his take on the magic of the movie in a tome that combines new interviews with a Vanity Fair oral history Buss did in 2022.
—Rachel Flynn, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025
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Noun
The most complete studies were done by the British archaeologist and scholar Thomas Ashby, who scoured the remotest corners of the Roman Campagna from 1906 to 1925, and produced a magisterial tome, The Aqueducts of Ancient Rome, which was published posthumously by his wife in 1935.
—Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
Phew! Related Articles The 306-page French language tome, published by Editions Fayard, debuted Thursday night at 7L, Lagerfeld’s famous Left Bank bookstore, where Gaubert signed copies for the likes of Rick Owens, Michèle Lamy, Elie Top, Martine Sitbon, Carine Roitfeld and Sarah Andelman.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 21 Mar. 2025
Fans of physical media can expect to peruse some 5,000 titles, including ones from local chefs, rare and esoteric selections and historic tomes dating from World War II and earlier.
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
Producer Judd Apatow is also interviewed for his take on the magic of the movie in a tome that combines new interviews with a Vanity Fair oral history Buss did in 2022.
—Rachel Flynn, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Tome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tome. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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tome
noun
: a big thick book
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