as in books
a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction
picked up a thick tome on the Roman Empire at a used book store
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Recent Examples of tomes
Ancient book clasps — used to keep manuscript tomes shut — were uncovered at the site, along with styli, the medieval equivalents of pens and pencils.
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Nothing, however, replaces cruising around stacks of books at a real bookstore, thumbing through the tomes that catch your eye.
—Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
Jones read tomes that featured accounts of pioneering women and of their attempts to survive and make it through.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Concurrent with the compound complexity of contemporary cars, most have become mind-numbing thick-as-a-brick tomes.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Their upstairs room full of antique tomes provides panoramic views of the historic statehouse and its statue of former governor William Goebel, who was assassinated on the grounds in 1900.
—Robin Roenker, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025
The company also struck a distribution deal last year for its screenplay books, lavish tomes immortalizing A24’s most successful scripts, which are now available in bookstores around the world.
—Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Dior has previously worked with Saillard on books, including a series of coffee table tomes from Assouline chronicling each creative director of the brand.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
These tomes for tots tend to fall into thematic categories, the most prominent being perseverance and individualism.
—Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Nothing, however, replaces cruising around stacks of books at a real bookstore, thumbing through the tomes that catch your eye.
—Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
Jones read tomes that featured accounts of pioneering women and of their attempts to survive and make it through.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Concurrent with the compound complexity of contemporary cars, most have become mind-numbing thick-as-a-brick tomes.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Their upstairs room full of antique tomes provides panoramic views of the historic statehouse and its statue of former governor William Goebel, who was assassinated on the grounds in 1900.
—Robin Roenker, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025
The company also struck a distribution deal last year for its screenplay books, lavish tomes immortalizing A24’s most successful scripts, which are now available in bookstores around the world.
—Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Dior has previously worked with Saillard on books, including a series of coffee table tomes from Assouline chronicling each creative director of the brand.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
These tomes for tots tend to fall into thematic categories, the most prominent being perseverance and individualism.
—Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tomes
books
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As a childless person who doesn’t teach I’ve been happily unaware that, due to standardized testing requirements that favor close reads of excerpts over whole books, there’s an entire generation of students who have very little contextual framework for the literature they’re being taught in school.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Simply Winnie will debut June 2, 2026 and is available now for preorder, wherever books are sold.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Tomes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tomes. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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