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 

• COLOPHON (noun)

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.)