Alternative forms

• vol. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#VOLUMECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#VOLUME volume, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#VOLUME volume, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#VOLUME volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɒl.juːm/, /ˈvɒl.jʊm/Category:English 2-syllable words#VOLUMECategory:English 2-syllable words#VOLUMECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VOLUME
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvɑ.ljum/, /ˈvɑ.ljəm/Category:English 2-syllable words#VOLUMECategory:English 2-syllable words#VOLUMECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VOLUME

  • Audio (US):

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    Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#VOLUME
• (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA^(key): /ˈvɒlɪu̯m/Category:English 2-syllable words#VOLUMECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VOLUME

• Audio (Southern England):

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  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#VOLUME
• Rhymes: -ɒljuːm, -ɒljʊmCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒljuːm#VOLUMECategory:Rhymes:English/ɒljuːm/2 syllables#VOLUMECategory:Rhymes:English/ɒljʊm#VOLUMECategory:Rhymes:English/ɒljʊm/2 syllables#VOLUME

Noun

volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)Category:English lemmas#VOLUMECategory:English nouns#VOLUMECategory:English uncountable nouns#VOLUMECategory:English countable nouns#VOLUMECategory:English countable nouns#VOLUMECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#VOLUMECategory:Pages with entries#VOLUMECategory:Pages with 9 entries#VOLUME

2. A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.

   The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.

   Category:English terms with usage examples#VOLUME

   The proper products can improve your hair's volume.

   Category:English terms with usage examples#VOLUME

   • 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments‎, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:

     Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.

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4. Strength of sound: how loud it is.

   Synonym: loudness

   Coordinate terms: pitch, timbre, tone color

   Please turn down the volume on the stereo.

   Category:English terms with usage examples#VOLUME

   Volume can be measured in decibels.

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   • 2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 November 2025:

     This is not only how we stop Trump; it’s how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.

     Category:English terms with quotations#VOLUME

5. The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.

   I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.Category:English terms with usage examples#VOLUME

6. A bound book.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

     Category:English terms with quotations#VOLUME

7. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.

   The letter "G" was found in volume 4.Category:English terms with usage examples#VOLUME

8. (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Ayesha wheeled round, and, pointing to the girl Ustane, said one word, and one only, but it was quite enough, for the tone in which it was said meant volumes.

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9. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#VOLUME) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
10. Quantity.

    The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.Category:English terms with usage examples#VOLUME

11. A rounded mass or convolution.
12. (economicsCategory:en:Economics#VOLUME) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
13. (computingCategory:en:Computing#VOLUME) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
14. (bodybuildingCategory:en:Bodybuilding#VOLUME) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.

    (key muscle growth stimuli) Coordinate terms: mechanical tension, frequency

15. (climbingCategory:en:Climbing#VOLUME, bouldering) A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
16. (graph theoryCategory:en:Graph theory#VOLUME) The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
17. (cinematographyCategory:en:Cinematography#VOLUME) A green/blue-screen chromakey visual effects (“VFX”) sound stage surrounded by a multitude of filming cameras, to allow for virtual camera changes in post production, by filming the whole 3-D volume of a chromakey film set.
18. (cinematographyCategory:en:Cinematography#VOLUME) A sound stage film set that has walls of video monitors, substituting for an actual background, set structures, providing a changeable video matte painting. A set with a form of projected background, similar to legacy traditional rear projection and front projection sets.

Verb

volume (third-person singular simple present volumes, present participle voluming, simple past and past participle volumed)Category:English lemmas#VOLUMECategory:English verbs#VOLUMECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#VOLUMECategory:Pages with entries#VOLUMECategory:Pages with 9 entries#VOLUME

1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#VOLUME) To be conveyed through the air, waft.
   • 1867, George Meredith, chapter 30, in Vittoria‎, volume 2, London: Chapman & Hall, page 258:

     […] thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.

     Category:English terms with quotations#VOLUME

   • 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter 2, in The Rise of Silas Lapham‎:

     […] the Colonel, before he sat down, went about shutting the registers, through which a welding heat came voluming up from the furnace.

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#VOLUME) To cause to move through the air, waft.
   • 1872, George Macdonald, chapter 15, in Wilfrid Cumbermede‎, volume I, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 243:

     We lay leaning over the bows, now looking up at the mist blown in never-ending volumed sheets, now at the sail swelling in the wind before which it fled, and again down at the water through which our boat was ploughing its evanescent furrow.

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   • 1900, Walter William Skeat, chapter 6, in Malay Magic‎, London: Macmillan, page 420:

     The censer, voluming upwards its ash-gray smoke, was now passed from hand to hand three times round the patient, and finally deposited on the floor at his feet.

     Category:English terms with quotations#VOLUME

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 219:

     The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”

     Category:English terms with quotations#VOLUME

3. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#VOLUME) To swell.

Noun

volume m (plural volumes)Category:Asturian lemmas#VOLUMECategory:Asturian nouns#VOLUMECategory:Asturian entries with incorrect language header#VOLUMECategory:Asturian masculine nouns#VOLUMECategory:Pages with entries#VOLUMECategory:Pages with 9 entries#VOLUME

1. volume

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle FrenchCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from Middle French#VOLUMECategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle French#VOLUME volume, from Old FrenchCategory:Dutch terms derived from Old French#VOLUME volume, from LatinCategory:Dutch terms derived from Latin#VOLUME volūmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvoːˈly.mə/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#VOLUME

• Audio:

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  Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#VOLUME
• Hyphenation: vo‧lu‧me

Noun

volume n (plural volumen or volumes, diminutive volumetje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#VOLUMECategory:Dutch nouns#VOLUMECategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#VOLUMECategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#VOLUMECategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#VOLUMECategory:Dutch neuter nouns#VOLUMECategory:Pages with entries#VOLUMECategory:Pages with 9 entries#VOLUME

1. volume (three-dimensional quantity of space)
2. volume (sound level)
3. (obsoleteCategory:Dutch terms with obsolete senses#VOLUME) volume, book (single book as an instalment in a series)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#VOLUMECategory:French learned borrowings from Latin#VOLUMECategory:French terms derived from Latin#VOLUME volūmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.lym/Category:French 2-syllable words#VOLUMECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#VOLUME

• Audio (France (Paris)); “le volume”:

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  Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#VOLUME

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Paris)):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

volume m (plural volumes)Category:French lemmas#VOLUMECategory:French nouns#VOLUMECategory:French countable nouns#VOLUMECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#VOLUMECategory:French masculine nouns#VOLUMECategory:Pages with entries#VOLUMECategory:Pages with 9 entries#VOLUME

1. volume (of a book, a written work)
2. volume (sound)
3. volume (amount of space something takes up)
4. volume (amount; quantity)
5. (figuratively) an overly long piece of writing

Further reading

• “volume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#VOLUMECategory:Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#VOLUME volume, from LatinCategory:Galician terms derived from Latin#VOLUME volūmen (“a book, roll”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔˈlume/ [bɔˈlu.mɪ]Category:Galician terms with IPA pronunciation#VOLUME
• Rhymes: -umeCategory:Rhymes:Galician/ume#VOLUMECategory:Rhymes:Galician/ume/3 syllables#VOLUME
• Hyphenation: vo‧lu‧me

Noun

volume m (plural volumes)Category:Galician lemmas#VOLUMECategory:Galician nouns#VOLUMECategory:Galician countable nouns#VOLUMECategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#VOLUMECategory:Galician masculine nouns#VOLUMECategory:Pages with entries#VOLUMECategory:Pages with 9 entries#VOLUME

1. volume (quantity of space)
2. volume (single book of a published work)

References

• “volume”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “volume”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “volume”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “volume”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “volume”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “volume”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “volume”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

InternationalismCategory:Indonesian internationalisms#VOLUME, borrowed from DutchCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch#VOLUMECategory:Indonesian terms derived from Dutch#VOLUME volume, from Middle FrenchCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Middle French#VOLUME volume, from Old FrenchCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Old French#VOLUME volume, from LatinCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Latin#VOLUME volūmen.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian)
  • IPA^(key): /voˈlumə/ [foˈlu.mə]Category:Indonesian 3-syllable words#VOLUMECategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#VOLUME
    • Rhymes: -uməCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/umə#VOLUMECategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/umə/3 syllables#VOLUME
  • IPA^(key): /voˈlume/ [foˈlu.me]Category:Indonesian 3-syllable words#VOLUMECategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#VOLUME
    • Rhymes: -umeCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/ume#VOLUMECategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/ume/3 syllables#VOLUME
• Syllabification: vo‧lu‧me

Noun

volumê or volumé (plural volume-volume)Category:Indonesian lemmas#VOLUMECategory:Indonesian nouns#VOLUMECategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#VOLUMECategory:Pages with entries#VOLUMECategory:Pages with 9 entries#VOLUME

1. volume; a three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height
2. volume, loudness; strength of sound
3. volume, quantity

   Synonyms: banyaknya, besarnya, bobot, kuantitas

4. volume; a single book of a publication issued in multi-book format

   Synonym: jilid

5. volume; he issues of a periodical over a period of one year

References

Further reading

• “volume”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#VOLUME volūmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /voˈlu.me/Category:Italian 3-syllable words#VOLUMECategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#VOLUME
• Rhymes: -umeCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ume#VOLUMECategory:Rhymes:Italian/ume/3 syllables#VOLUME
• Hyphenation: vo‧lù‧me

• Audio:

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  Category:Italian terms with audio pronunciation#VOLUME

Noun

volume m (plural volumi)Category:Italian lemmas#VOLUMECategory:Italian nouns#VOLUMECategory:Italian countable nouns#VOLUMECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#VOLUMECategory:Italian masculine nouns#VOLUMECategory:Pages with entries#VOLUMECategory:Pages with 9 entries#VOLUME

1. volume (clarification of this definition is needed)Category:Requests for clarification of definitions in Italian entries#VOLUME

Further reading

• volume in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:Old French terms borrowed from Latin#VOLUMECategory:Old French terms derived from Latin#VOLUME volūmen (“a book, roll”).

Noun

volume m or fCategory:Old French lemmas#VOLUMECategory:Old French nouns#VOLUMECategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#VOLUMECategory:Old French masculine nouns#VOLUMECategory:Old French feminine nouns#VOLUMECategory:Old French nouns with multiple genders#VOLUMECategory:Pages with entries#VOLUMECategory:Pages with 9 entries#VOLUME

1. volume, specifically a collection of written works

Etymology

From Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#VOLUMECategory:Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#VOLUME volume, borrowed from LatinCategory:Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin#VOLUMECategory:Portuguese terms derived from Latin#VOLUME volūmen.

Pronunciation

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /vɔ.ˈlu.mɪ/, /vɔ.ˈlu.m/Category:Portuguese 3-syllable words#VOLUMECategory:Portuguese 2-syllable words#VOLUMECategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#VOLUME
• Hyphenation: vo‧lu‧me

Noun

volume m (plural volumes)Category:Portuguese lemmas#VOLUMECategory:Portuguese nouns#VOLUMECategory:Portuguese countable nouns#VOLUMECategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#VOLUMECategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#VOLUMECategory:Pages with entries#VOLUMECategory:Pages with 9 entries#VOLUME

1. (geometryCategory:pt:Geometry#VOLUME) volume (unit of three-dimensional measure)
2. volume; loudness (strength of sound)
3. (publishingCategory:pt:Publishing#VOLUME) volume (issues of a periodical over a period of one year)
4. (publishingCategory:pt:Publishing#VOLUME) volume (individual book of a publication issued as a set of books)
5. (chiefly historicalCategory:Portuguese terms with historical senses#VOLUME) volume (bound book)
6. volume; quantity

Further reading

• “volume”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “volume”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026