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tome

noun
/təʊm/UK/toʊm/US

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, “to cut, separate”).

  1. derived from τόμος
  2. derived from tomus
  3. borrowed from tome

Definitions

  1. One in a series of volumes.

  2. A large or scholarly book.

    • The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.
    • And Sam presents Tyrion with A Song Of Ice And Fire, a tome in which Tyrion’s own role, far from that of the clever hero or Machiavellian snake, doesn’t even exist.
    • One senses, picking up Twenge’s tome — 515 pages before you get to the appendix — an attempt to quell past criticisms. “I see this book as my magnum opus,” she said.

  3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tome. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tome. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at tome

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA