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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun quarto has 1 sense
- quarto(n = noun.attribute) 4to - the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves; Array is a kind of size
CIDE DICTIONARY
quarto, a. [L. in quarto in fourth, from quartus the fourth: cf. F. (in) quarto. See Quart.].
Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto. [1913 Webster]
quarto, n.
Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
quarto, n. (pl. -os) Printing 1 the size given by folding a (usu. specified) sheet of paper twice.
2 a book consisting of sheets folded in this way.
2 a book consisting of sheets folded in this way.
Idiom
quarto paper paper folded in this way and cut into sheets.
Usage
Abbr.: 4to.
Etymology
L (in) quarto (in) the fourth (of a sheet), ablat. of quartus fourth
THESAURUS
quarto
crown, duodecimo, eighteenmo, farthing, folio, fourth, fourth part, imperial, medium, octavo, octodecimo, one-fourth, quart, quarter, quartern, royal, sextodecimo, sixteenmo, super, twelvemo, twenty-five cents, twenty-five percent, two bitsROGET THESAURUS
quarto
Book
N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, 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, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
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