Tome
noun
A large or scholarly book.
She sat in the library, pouring over an ancient tome.
Often appears as...
- heavy tome
- ancient tome
noun
One in a series of books.
The final tome of the epic fantasy series is the most exciting.
Often appears as...
- last tome
- next tome
noun
A large or scholarly book.
She sat in the library, pouring over an ancient tome.
Often appears as...
- heavy tome
- ancient tome
noun
One in a series of books.
The final tome of the epic fantasy series is the most exciting.
Often appears as...
- last tome
- next tome
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Heft
Refers to books physically large or heavy, often hardcover.
The professor's desk was stacked with intimidating tomes.
Pro Tip 2/3Intellectual Depth
Signifies in-depth discussion or comprehensive coverage on a subject.
Her thesis was a tome filled with detailed analyses.
Pro Tip 3/3Implies Importance
Often suggests the book has scholarly or historical significance.
The tome contained centuries of wisdom on herbal medicine.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Heft
Refers to books physically large or heavy, often hardcover.
The professor's desk was stacked with intimidating tomes.
Pro Tip 2/3Intellectual Depth
Signifies in-depth discussion or comprehensive coverage on a subject.
Her thesis was a tome filled with detailed analyses.
Pro Tip 3/3Implies Importance
Often suggests the book has scholarly or historical significance.
The tome contained centuries of wisdom on herbal medicine.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Heft
Refers to books physically large or heavy, often hardcover.
The professor's desk was stacked with intimidating tomes.
Pro Tip 2/3Intellectual Depth
Signifies in-depth discussion or comprehensive coverage on a subject.
Her thesis was a tome filled with detailed analyses.
Pro Tip 3/3Implies Importance
Often suggests the book has scholarly or historical significance.
The tome contained centuries of wisdom on herbal medicine.
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Mapping the Unknown,...
next thing and then you know he had made an important discovery he didn't even know that was an important discovery we discovered everybody else was wrong that that actually was important and so this is I mean we're just so used to this as the process of science I mean it's not it's not like somebody handing us a sacred tome and saying these are the
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Titan of terror: the...
But perhaps the greatest power these creatures had was their appeal to Lovecraft’s contemporaries. During his lifetime, Lovecraft corresponded with other writers, encouraging them to employ elements and characters from his stories in their own. References to Lovecraftian gods or arcane tomes can be found in many stories by his pen pals,
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Nic Marks: The Happy...
everything evidence based -- a huge tome. But a piece of work we did was what five positive actions can you do to improve well-being in your life? And the point of these is they are, not quite, the secrets of happiness, but they are things that I think happiness will flow out the side from.
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Is there any truth to...
The centerpiece of this tome was King Arthur. History is a generous term for Geoffrey’s account. Writing six hundred years after the Saxon invasions, he cobbled together fragments of myth and poetry to compensate for the almost complete lack of official records.
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The world’s most...
lies the only copy of a 240-page tome. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its vellum pages features looping handwriting and hand-drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. Real and imaginary plants, floating castles, bathing women, astrology diagrams,
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Why should you read...
who smoke and set their mechanical hound after rats to pass the time. When the alarm sounds they surge out in salamander-shaped vehicles, sometimes to burn whole libraries to the ground. But as he sets tomes ablaze day after day like “black butterflies,”
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Why should you read "Don...
At this time, medieval books chronicling the adventures of knights and their moral code dominated European culture. While Cervantes was a fan, he was weary of these repetitive tomes, which focused more on listing heroic feats than character development.
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How the Monkey King...
What was this unusual creature? And was he a mortal, a god— or something else? The Lords consulted the Book of Death and Life— a tome which showed the time of every living soul’s death. Not knowing what category this strange being was under,
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Infinity according to...
each containing the same number of books of the same length, the library of babel is its own universe. It contains every possible variation of text, so there are some profound books, but also countless tomes of complete gibberish.
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Why should you read...
"War and Peace," a tome, a slog, the sort of book you shouldn't read in bed because if you fall asleep,
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Mapping the Unknown,...
next thing and then you know he had made an important discovery he didn't even know that was an important discovery we discovered everybody else was wrong that that actually was important and so this is I mean we're just so used to this as the process of science I mean it's not it's not like somebody handing us a sacred tome and saying these are the
Video examples
Titan of terror: the...
But perhaps the greatest power these creatures had was their appeal to Lovecraft’s contemporaries. During his lifetime, Lovecraft corresponded with other writers, encouraging them to employ elements and characters from his stories in their own. References to Lovecraftian gods or arcane tomes can be found in many stories by his pen pals,
Video examples
Nic Marks: The Happy...
everything evidence based -- a huge tome. But a piece of work we did was what five positive actions can you do to improve well-being in your life? And the point of these is they are, not quite, the secrets of happiness, but they are things that I think happiness will flow out the side from.
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Is there any truth to...
The centerpiece of this tome was King Arthur. History is a generous term for Geoffrey’s account. Writing six hundred years after the Saxon invasions, he cobbled together fragments of myth and poetry to compensate for the almost complete lack of official records.
Video examples
The world’s most...
lies the only copy of a 240-page tome. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its vellum pages features looping handwriting and hand-drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. Real and imaginary plants, floating castles, bathing women, astrology diagrams,
Video examples
Why should you read...
who smoke and set their mechanical hound after rats to pass the time. When the alarm sounds they surge out in salamander-shaped vehicles, sometimes to burn whole libraries to the ground. But as he sets tomes ablaze day after day like “black butterflies,”
Video examples
Why should you read "Don...
At this time, medieval books chronicling the adventures of knights and their moral code dominated European culture. While Cervantes was a fan, he was weary of these repetitive tomes, which focused more on listing heroic feats than character development.
Video examples
How the Monkey King...
What was this unusual creature? And was he a mortal, a god— or something else? The Lords consulted the Book of Death and Life— a tome which showed the time of every living soul’s death. Not knowing what category this strange being was under,
Video examples
Infinity according to...
each containing the same number of books of the same length, the library of babel is its own universe. It contains every possible variation of text, so there are some profound books, but also countless tomes of complete gibberish.
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Why should you read...
"War and Peace," a tome, a slog, the sort of book you shouldn't read in bed because if you fall asleep,
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Vint Cerf
American Scientist
Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because we've become accustomed to looking up something, getting a snippet and being satisfied with that - as opposed to reading through and considering a weighty tome that goes into great depth.
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John P. Kotter
American Educator
The dry academic tomes I wrote very early in my career were earnest reflections of the research I conducted, the analysis I applied and the conclusions I drew. And they had few readers, mostly other academics. I learned along the way and started including more and more stories in my work.
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Melissa Rosenberg
American Writer
With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.
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Karan Mahajan
Indian Novelist
Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.
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Pankaj Mishra
Indian Novelist
Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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Mary H.K. Choi
South Korean Author
Wikipedia's a collaborative experiment akin to Simon Winchester's account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary in 'The Professor and the Madman,' which outlines James Murray's mission to produce the tome in the 19th century.
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Felix Adler
German Educator
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
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Harry Knowles
American Critic
I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.
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Peter Ackroyd
British Author
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
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Toby Young
British Journalist
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.
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Vint Cerf
American Scientist
Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because we've become accustomed to looking up something, getting a snippet and being satisfied with that - as opposed to reading through and considering a weighty tome that goes into great depth.
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John P. Kotter
American Educator
The dry academic tomes I wrote very early in my career were earnest reflections of the research I conducted, the analysis I applied and the conclusions I drew. And they had few readers, mostly other academics. I learned along the way and started including more and more stories in my work.
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Melissa Rosenberg
American Writer
With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.
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Karan Mahajan
Indian Novelist
Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.
Quote examples
Pankaj Mishra
Indian Novelist
Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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Mary H.K. Choi
South Korean Author
Wikipedia's a collaborative experiment akin to Simon Winchester's account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary in 'The Professor and the Madman,' which outlines James Murray's mission to produce the tome in the 19th century.
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Felix Adler
German Educator
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
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Harry Knowles
American Critic
I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.
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Peter Ackroyd
British Author
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
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Toby Young
British Journalist
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.
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