Usually means: Publisher's emblem or imprint information.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word colophon:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. Colophon, colophon: Merriam-Webster
  2. Colophon, colophon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Colophon, colophon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. colophon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. colophon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Colophon, colophon: Wordnik
  7. colophon: Wiktionary
  8. colophon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. colophon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. colophon: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Colophon, colophon: Dictionary.com
  12. colophon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Colophon (beetle), Colophon (city), Colophon (publishing), Colophon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Colophon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. colophon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. colophon: Rhymezone
  17. Colophon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. colophon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. colophon: FreeDictionary.org
  20. colophon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. colophon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Colophon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Colophon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. colophon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colophon: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. colophon: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Colophon: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. colophon: A Word A Day
  2. colophon: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colophon: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Colophon)

noun:  (printing, publishing) In manuscripts (typically before the invention of printing), the note, usually at the end, left by the scribe who copied it, giving information on their exemplar, where and when the copy was made, and sometimes, their own name.
noun:  (printing) A printer's or publisher's identifying inscription or logo appearing at the front or end of a book, or the same appearing on the spine or dust jacket.
noun:  (by extension, Internet) A page on a website identifying the details of its creation, such as the author's name and the technologies used.
noun:  (obsolete) A finishing stroke or crowning touch.
noun:  A historical city in Ancient Greece.

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