as in book
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 tome
Well, there’s a huge tome, like a giant file of all these short stories, that Tim has flagged over the decades, and he’s put it into a long list.
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Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 11 June 2025
In practice, this has led to tomes of environmental impact reports, including volumes of soil testing and traffic modeling studies, and sometimes years of disputes in court.
—Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
Many of these tomes remove the conflict, fighting, even hard city settings for magical lands or cozy coffee shops to give readers a sense of peace and general understanding of how the journey will play out.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025
Filling the gaps is a mishmash of biographies, fiction of all sorts, and tomes on music, sports, and politics.
—Jack Barlow, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025
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Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 11 June 2025
In practice, this has led to tomes of environmental impact reports, including volumes of soil testing and traffic modeling studies, and sometimes years of disputes in court.
—Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
Many of these tomes remove the conflict, fighting, even hard city settings for magical lands or cozy coffee shops to give readers a sense of peace and general understanding of how the journey will play out.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025
Filling the gaps is a mishmash of biographies, fiction of all sorts, and tomes on music, sports, and politics.
—Jack Barlow, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tome
Noun
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The book is published with Forbes Books, the exclusive business book publishing imprint of Forbes.—
Forbes Books Press Release Official,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The half-giant Hagrid features in every Harry Potter book and is one of the first characters to appear in The Philosopher’s Stone.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
15 July 2025
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Their first encounters, like those of Malaparte’s other early American readers, came via pulpy Signet paperbacks in the nineteen-fifties.—
Thomas Meaney,
New Yorker,
2 July 2025
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Gen was stupidly tall and although her shoes were falling apart, her relaxed, graceful pace made Emily think of paintings of gentlemen from bygone eras, the kind on paperbacks like The Age of Innocence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
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“Tome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tome. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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