tome

1. 1.

   a (usually) large and scholarly book

   Broaderbook

Other forms of tome

plural

tomes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tome

What does tome mean?

tome means "a (usually) large and scholarly book".

How many syllables are in tome?

tome has 1 syllable: tome. In IPA it is /ˈtoʊm/.

Is tome a common word?

tome is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.