ˈtōm noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French tome, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos slice, section, roll of papyrus, tome, from temnein to cut; akin to Greek tendein to gnaw, Latin tondēre to shear, crop, Middle Irish tennaid he splits
1. : a volume forming part of a larger work
a history in ten tomes
2. : book
over 259,000,000 copies of pocket-size tomes were printed — J.K.Hutchens
especially : a large ponderous or a scholarly volume
heavy books of reference or other large tomes that must stand much wear — Edith Diehl
a huge twenty-pound tome as compared with the seven-and-a-half-pound volume — John Lawler
adults often leave heavier tomes for cooler weather to dip into light summer fare — New York Times Book Review
two lines of poetry often tell us more, give us more, than the weightiest tome of an erudite — Henry Miller
waded conscientiously through many formidable tomes — W.S.Maugham