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multivolume

American  
[muhl-tee-vol-yoom, muhl-tahy-] / ˌmʌl tiˈvɒl yum, ˌmʌl taɪ- /
Or multivolumed

adjective

  1. consisting of or encompassing several volumes.

    a multivolume encyclopedia.


Etymology

Origin of multivolume

First recorded in 1935–40; multi- + volume

Example Sentences

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Rodriguez and Hammack are ideally situated to undertake this multivolume work.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2025

His latest contemporary-music vehicle is a multivolume series, “Primavera,” in which he’s invited 81 composers to respond to spring-indebted paintings by Botticelli and the contemporary artist Charline von Heyl.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2022

They learned a lot from this intimate tutelage in wartime leadership, and years later, they summed up those lessons in a multivolume history of the Lincoln administration.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2021

This is the final installment in Perlstein’s multivolume history of the New Right, told as a kind of “To the Finland Station” in reverse.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2020

It was part of a multivolume set called Narrative of the Surveying Voyages ofHMS Adventure and Beagle Between the years 1826 and 1836.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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