Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: voluminous
IPA transcription: [vəl'umənəs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: voluminous
    Meaning: large in volume or bulk; "a voluminous skirt"
Usage examples
  • She is without doubt the most voluminous woman writer of the Middle Ages.
  • Nearly all Spiders have a voluminous belly, a silk-warehouse where, in some cases, the rigging of the net, in others, the swan's-down of the nest is manufactured.
  • For several months after leaving Rivermouth I carried on a voluminous correspondence with Pepper Whitcomb; but it gradually dwindled down to a single letter a month, and then to none at all.
  • The angler, who is a big, sturdy man with large, black-rimmed spectacles upon his voluminous nose, is in his customary fishing-dress--an old straw hat with an elastic under the chin, his coat off, and no collar, on his legs a pair of thick, yellowish brown moleskin trousers, his feet in a pair of felt shoes, lined with straw.