Definitions for Colophon

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Colophon col·o·phon

Spelling: [kol-uh-fon, -fuh n]

IPA: /ˈkɒl əˌfɒn, -fən/

Colophon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in Colophon (chlnooop).

Definitions for Colophon

noun

1. a publisher's or printer's distinctive emblem, used as an identifying device on its books and other works.
2. an inscription at the end of a book or manuscript, used especially in the 15th and 16th centuries, giving the title or subject of the work, its author, the name of the printer or publisher, and the date and place of publication.
3. an ancient city in Asia Minor: one of the 12 Ionian cities banded together in the 8th century b.c.: largely depopulated in 286 b.c.

Origin of Colophon

1615-25; Latin Greek kolophṓn summit, finishing touch

Examples for Colophon

In his colophon to the Rmpr Dwn, it is a parallel of ashr, poems.

Of course, there is no need to word the colophon always in this manner.

Must I be torn from hence and thrown With frontispiece and colophon!

With the subjugation of colophon the successes of Alyattes ended.

Prophets and prophetesses fasted at Miletus, colophon, and other places.

Dionysios of colophon and Pauson have already been spoken of.

The colophon is a real masterpiece and a witty criticism of the play as well.

This colophon is preceded by 'Tregentyll,' and followed by 'Chaucer.'

She was a nymph once, they say—the daughter of Idmon the dyer, of colophon, a city of Lydia.

This Bible, as appears from the colophon, was finished on this day, 1535.