Hypertext Webster Gateway: "voluminous"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Voluminous \Vo*lu"mi*nous\, a. [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 writer. -- {Vo*lu"mi*nous*ly},
adv. -- {Vo*lu"mi*nous*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

voluminous
adj : large in volume or bulk; "a voluminous skirt"


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