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Tome
//təʊm// name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Noun
- 1 One in a series of volumes.
- 2 a (usually) large and scholarly book wordnet
- 3 A large or scholarly book.
"The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf."
Etymology
From Middle French tome, from Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut, separate”).
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