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COLOPHON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does colophon mean?
• COLOPHON (noun)
The noun COLOPHON has 1 sense:
1. a publisher's emblem printed in a book (usually on the title page)
Familiarity information: COLOPHON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A publisher's emblem printed in a book (usually on the title page)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("colophon" is a kind of...):
emblem (special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.)
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