Definitions for tomes

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Spelling: [tohm]
IPA: /toʊm/

Tomes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in tomes (emost).

Definitions for tomes

noun

  1. a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
  2. a volume forming a part of a larger work.

Origin of tomes

1510-20; French Latin tomus Greek tómos slice, piece, roll of paper, book, akin to témnein to cut

Examples for tomes

Greece, out of all her tomes, has left us but a few ill-written p. 77papyri.

These are the spontaneous lenders, who insist that you shall borrow their tomes.

Other tomes, whose use is past, they bear off to the shades below.

Understanding, he shifted his tomes to his left breast and saluted the second carriage.

Indeed, the Sheikh is right; most of these tomes are good for nothing else.

The room is pitch-dark always, and it is full of tables and tomes.

Rises, removes a small screen to reveal a towering pile of tomes.

"And the client too," said tomes aloud; but nobody had heard what I had said.

It will not take him long to run through two or three tomes.

To be sure, “the guilt of the West is beyond anything that has been recorded in films and tomes and painting,” he said.

Word Value for tomes
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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