Definitions for folio

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folio fo·li·o

Spelling: [foh-lee-oh]

IPA: /ˈfoʊ liˌoʊ/

Folio is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in folio (filoo).

Definitions for folio

noun

1. a sheet of paper folded once to make two leaves, or four pages, of a book or manuscript.
2. a volume having pages of the largest size, formerly made from such a sheet.
3. a leaf of a manuscript or book numbered only on the front side.
4. a case that, when closed, covers and protects both the screen and the back panel of a mobile device, as a tablet or smartphone.
5. Printing. (in a book) the number of each page. (in a newspaper) the number of each page together with the date and the name of the newspaper.
6. 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.
7. Law. a certain number of words, in the U.S. generally 100, taken as a unit for computing the length of a document.
8. the back of the page; verso (opposed to folio recto).

adjective

1. pertaining to or having the format of a folio:

verb (used with object)

1. to number each leaf or page of.
2. Law. to mark each folio in (a pleading or the like) with the proper number.

Origin of folio

1525-35; Latin foliō (orig. in phrase in foliō in a leaf, sheet), ablative of folium folium

Examples for folio

We have only to consider the absurdity of a handy-volume Gibbon or a folio Lamb.

Like yacht and horse racing, wine making is a wildly expensive proposition, says Michael Mondavi, founder of folio Wines.

He had got through January and February in five folio volumes, when he died in 1658.

He was seated at a table, and had a large old German folio open before him.

The generally used descriptions of size, from folio down to 48mo.

I would not take my folio paper for this epistle, and now I repent it.

Nor can we regard as aught other such terms as 'leaf' or 'folio,' which is also 'leaf.'

The Rector spoke with an obvious effort, got his hand off the page and closed the folio.

But it is another thing when Lamb says, “I do not care for a first folio of Shakespeare.”

But the whole truth as regards the folio was not to be divulged yet.