Synonyms for octavo
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ok-tey-voh, -tah- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɒkˈteɪ voʊ, -ˈtɑ- |
Top 10 synonyms for octavo Other synonyms for the word octavo
- atlas
- bestseller
- Bible
- codex
- compendium
- dissertation
- encyclopedia
- folio
- handbook
- hardcover
- leaflet
- lexicon
- monograph
- nonfiction
- novel
- octavo
- offprint
- omnibus
- opus
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- pamphlet
- paperback
- periodical
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- primer
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- reader
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- roll
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- text
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- thesaurus
- tome
- tract
- treatise
- vade mecum
- volume
- work
- writing
Définition of octavo
Origin :- 1580s, printer's word for sheets folded to make eight leaves, from Latin in octavo "in the eighth," ablative of octavus "eighth" (see octave). Abbreviation is 8vo.
- As in book : noun published document
- They make an octavo volume of about three hundred and fifty pages.
- Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 » by Various
- Of this book, published in octavo in 1893, it is impossible to speak too highly.
- Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan
- Another edition of this work was published in octavo at Basle in 1740.
- Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan
- A customer is likely to ask for Ivanhoe in English, octavo, bound in leather.
- Extract from : « The Classification of Patents » by United States Patent Office
- The catalogue filled 13 octavo volumes, and the sale occupied 216 days.
- Extract from : « A Book for All Readers » by Ainsworth Rand Spofford
- They will not understand a man who condenses his thoughts into an octavo.
- Extract from : « Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters » by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
- It will be an octavo of about six hundred pages, with portraits.
- Extract from : « The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 » by Various
- It is in three octavo volumes, and is entitled Svenska Fornsnger.
- Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 » by Various
- Octavo of 856 pages, with 437 illustrations, many in colors.
- Extract from : « The Elements of Bacteriological Technique » by John William Henry Eyre
- He produced an edition of his plays in six octavo volumes in 1709.
- Extract from : « A Life of William Shakespeare » by Sidney Lee
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