Definitions for volume

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volume vol·ume

Spelling: [vol-yoom, -yuh m]

IPA: /ˈvɒl yum, -yəm/

Volume is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in volume (elmouv).

Definitions for volume

noun

1. a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
2. one book of a related set or series.
3. a set of issues of a periodical, often covering one year.
4. History/Historical. a roll of papyrus, parchment, or the like, or of manuscript.
5. the amount of space, measured in cubic units, that an object or substance occupies.
6. a mass or quantity, especially a large quantity, of something:
7. amount; total:
8. the degree of sound intensity or audibility; loudness:
9. fullness or quantity of tone.

Idioms

1. speak volumes, to be very evident or significant: to be expressive or meaningful:

Origin of volume

1350-1400; Middle English volum(e) Middle French Latin volūmen roll (of sheets), equivalent to volū-, base of volvere to roll + -men noun suffix

Examples for volume

It is like closing a volume of Ossian and opening the pages of Theocritus.

The books in the study include a set of Shaw's plays with the first volume inscribed to Hitchcock from GBS.

Lady Delacour opened the book, which was a volume of Marmontel's Tales.

And as she spoke, she took up a volume of plays which lay upon the table.

Several commentators have written off the entire midterms because of the volume of attacks and deepening partisanship.

Such discussion would have no proper place in a volume of this kind.

Nothing had prepared the city or the department for this volume of loss.

Virginia started from her reverie, but held the volume fast.

This volume of activity, according to Dr. Nyquist, is something “we usually see [only] in the winter.”

Tragically, Cary did not live to complete the second volume, and in 2000 I began work in earnest on this book.