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Webster 1913 Edition
Voluminous
Vo-lu′mi-nous
,Adj.
[L.
voluminosus
: cf. F. volumineux
.] Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
Specifically: –(a)
Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
Voluminous
and vast. Milton.
Over which dusky draperies are hanging, and
voluminous
curtains have long since fallen. De Quincey.
(b)
Of great volume, or bulk; large.
B. Jonson.
(c)
Consisting of many volumes or books; as, the collections of Muratori are voluminous .(d)
Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse;
– as, a
. voluminous
writerVo-lu′mi-nous-ly
, adv.
Vo-lu′mi-nous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Voluminous
VOLU'MINOUS
, a.1.
Consisting of many coils or complications.The serpent roll'd voluminous and vast.
2.
Consisting of many volumes or books.The collections of Muratori and of the Byzantine history, are very voluminous.
3.
Having written much, or made many volumes; as a voluminons writer.4.
Copious; diffusive. He was too voluminous in discourse. [Not in use.]Definition 2024
voluminous
voluminous
English
Adjective
voluminous (comparative more voluminous, superlative most voluminous)
- Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
- Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
- Of great volume, or bulk; large.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- Matters of a much more extraordinary kind are to be the subject of this history, or I should grossly mis-spend my time in writing so voluminous a work […]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse.
- a voluminous writer
Translations
pertaining to volume
consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions
of great volume
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having written much
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