Voluminous Meaning
/vəˈl(j)uː.mɪ.nəs/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf or pertaining to volume or volumes.
adjConsisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
Sentence Examples
The information the ancients didn’t have was very voluminous.
A voluminous robe hid the contours of the body underneath.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The bride's incredibly ____ dress took up so much space it covered half the room.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The library contains a ____ collection of ancient manuscripts that have been collected from several many different countries today.
Word Origin & History
From Late Latin voluminosus, from volumen, from volvō (“roll, turn about”) + -men (noun-forming suffix). Related to volume.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I remember that the Baroness was clad in a voluminous silk dress, pale grey in colour, and adorned with flounces and a crinoline and train."
— 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter VI, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/VI):
"Like the Cuscus of the Moluccas, the Galeopithecus feeds chiefly on leaves, and possesses a very voluminous stomach and long convoluted intestines. The brain is very small, and the animal possesses such remarkable tenacity of life, that it is exceedingly difficult to kill it by any ordinary means."
— 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 211:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The bride's incredibly ____ dress took up so much space it covered half the room.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The library contains a ____ collection of ancient manuscripts that have been collected from several many different countries today.