How to spell volume

Volume is spelled V-O-L-U-M-E. A single L, then -UME, as in costume: vol-ume.

hear itvol·ume/'vɑljum/nounRules and real life

What it means: The magnitude of sound.

In a sentence: The teacher turned up the volume of the music.

Same family: volumes, multi-volume, encyclopedia, tome. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Volume comes from Latin 'volumen,' meaning 'roll' or 'scroll,' because early books were rolled-up scrolls. Over time, the word came to mean a bound book or one book in a series.

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