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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024fo•li•o /ˈfoʊliˌoʊ/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -li•os.- Printinga sheet of paper folded once to make two leaves, or four pages, of a book or manuscript.
- Printinga book having pages of the largest size.
See -foli-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fo•li•o (fō′lē ō′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -li•os, adj., v., -li•oed, -li•o•ing. n. - Printinga sheet of paper folded once to make two leaves, or four pages, of a book or manuscript.
- Printinga volume having pages of the largest size, formerly made from such a sheet.
- Printinga leaf of a manuscript or book numbered only on the front side.
- [Print.]
- Printing(in a book) the number of each page.
- Printing(in a newspaper) the number of each page together with the date and the name of the newspaper.
- Business[Bookkeeping.]a page of an account book or a left-hand page and a right-hand page facing each other and having the same serial number.
- Lawa certain number of words, in the U.S. generally 100, taken as a unit for computing the length of a document.
adj. - Printingpertaining to or having the format of a folio:a folio volume.
v.t. - Printingto number each leaf or page of.
- Lawto mark each folio in (a pleading or the like) with the proper number.
- Latin foliō (origin, originally in phrase in foliō in a leaf, sheet), ablative of folium folium
- 1525–35
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: folio /ˈfəʊlɪəʊ/ n ( pl -lios)- a sheet of paper folded in half to make two leaves for a book or manuscript
- a book or manuscript of the largest common size made up of such sheets
- a leaf of paper or parchment numbered on the front side only
- a page number in a book
- a unit of measurement of the length of legal documents, determined by the number of words, generally 72 or 90 in Britain and 100 in the US
adj - relating to or having the format of a folio: a folio edition
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin phrase in foliō in a leaf, from folium leaf |