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 

• OCTAVO (noun)

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:

8vo; eightvo; octavo

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)