FOLIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does folio mean? 

• FOLIO (noun)
  The noun FOLIO has 3 senses:

1. the system of numbering pages

2. a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)

3. a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages

  Familiarity information: FOLIO used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOLIO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The system of numbering pages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

folio; page number; pagination; paging

Hypernyms ("folio" is a kind of...):

number (a concept of quantity involving zero and units)

Holonyms ("folio" is a part of...):

page (one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

folio; leaf

Hypernyms ("folio" is a kind of...):

piece of paper; sheet; sheet of paper (paper used for writing or printing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "folio"):

flyleaf (a blank leaf in the front or back of a book)

interleaf (a blank leaf inserted between the leaves of a book)

page (one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains)

Holonyms ("folio" is a part of...):

black and white; written communication; written language (communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the first folio of Shakespeare's plays

Hypernyms ("folio" is a kind of...):

book; volume (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together)

 Context examples 

Indeed, I can assure you that a first folio of Shakespeare could not be treated with greater reverence than this relic has been since it came into my possession.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But this I know,—that we saw the Doctor before he saw us, sitting at his table, among the folio volumes in which he delighted, resting his head calmly on his hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The book I had a mind to read, was put up leaning against the wall: I first mounted to the upper step of the ladder, and turning my face towards the book, began at the top of the page, and so walking to the right and left about eight or ten paces, according to the length of the lines, till I had gotten a little below the level of mine eyes, and then descending gradually till I came to the bottom: after which I mounted again, and began the other page in the same manner, and so turned over the leaf, which I could easily do with both my hands, for it was as thick and stiff as a pasteboard, and in the largest folios not above eighteen or twenty feet long.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Lydia's intention of walking to Meryton was not forgotten; every sister except Mary agreed to go with her; and Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself; for thither Mr. Collins had followed him after breakfast; and there he would continue, nominally engaged with one of the largest folios in the collection, but really talking to Mr. Bennet, with little cessation, of his house and garden at Hunsford.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Traddles broke into a rapturous laugh, and informed me that it was Sophy's writing; that Sophy had vowed and declared he would need a copying-clerk soon, and she would be that clerk; that she had acquired this hand from a pattern; and that she could throw off—I forget how many folios an hour.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Six hours a day the young students were employed in this labour; and the professor showed me several volumes in large folio, already collected, of broken sentences, which he intended to piece together, and out of those rich materials, to give the world a complete body of all arts and sciences; which, however, might be still improved, and much expedited, if the public would raise a fund for making and employing five hundred such frames in Lagado, and oblige the managers to contribute in common their several collections.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)