The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves.
synonyms: 8vo, eightvo.
Roget 593:
booklet;
writing,
work,
volume,
tome,
opuscule†;
tract,
tractate†;
livret†;
brochure,
libretto,
handbook,
codex,
manual,
pamphlet,
enchiridion†,
circular,
publication;
chap book.
part,
issue,
number livraison [Fr.];
album,
portfolio;
periodical,
serial,
magazine,
ephemeris,
annual,
journal.
paper,
bill,
sheet,
broadsheet†;
leaf,
leaflet;
fly leaf,
page;
quire,
ream.
[subdivisions of a book]
chapter,
section,
head,
article,
paragraph,
passage,
clause;
endpapers,
frontispiece;
cover,
binding.
folio,
quarto,
octavo;
duodecimo†,
sextodecimo†,
octodecimo†.
encyclopedia;
encompilation†.
[collection of books]
library,
bibliotheca†.
press
etc.
(publication)
531.
[complete description]
definitive work,
treatise,
comprehensive treatise
(dissertation)
595.
[person who writes a book]
writer,
author,
litterateur [Fr.],
essayist,
journalism;
pen,
scribbler,
the scribbling race;
literary hack,
Grub-street writer;
writer for the press,
gentleman of the press,
representative of the press;
adjective jerker†,
diaskeaust†,
ghost,
hack writer,
ink slinger;
publicist;
reporter,
penny a liner;
editor,
subeditor†;
playwright
etc.
599;
poet
etc.
597.
bookseller,
publisher;
bibliopole†,
bibliopolist†;
librarian;
bookstore,
bookshop,
bookseller's shop.
knowledge of books,
bibliography;
book learning
etc.
(knowledge)
490.
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Polish: octavo, ósemka, oktawa, oktaw