Usually means: Book size, eight leaves per.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word octavo:

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

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. octavo: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (octavo)

noun:  (paper, printing) A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves.
noun:  (printing) A book of octavo pages.

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