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OCTAVO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does octavo mean?
• OCTAVO (noun)
The noun OCTAVO has 1 sense:
1. the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves
Familiarity information: OCTAVO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("octavo" is a kind of...):
size (the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing))
Context examples
Wait in patience.—NEVILLE.’ Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf of a book, octavo size, no water-mark.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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