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tome
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tome(
tom
)A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
1. (book)
a. el tomo (M)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
The walls of the lawyer's office were lined with shelves stacked with tomes.Las paredes del despacho del abogado estaban cubiertas de estantes repletos de tomos.
b. el mamotreto (M) (colloquial)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
It's a wonder you can walk at all with so many weighty tomes in your backpack.Es un milagro que puedas caminar del todo con tantos mamotretos en tu mochila.
a. el volumen (M)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
The scholar's treatise on the history of communism was comprised of three tomes.El tratado del erudito acerca de la historia del comunismo comprendía tres volúmenes.
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