how to pronounce folio

/ˈfəʊ.li.əʊ/

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folio is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of folio in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… you have a lot of these folio squirrels …”

meanings of folio

noun:

A wrapper for loose papers.
A sheet of paper folded in half.
A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.
A page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.
A book made of sheets of paper each folded in half (two leaves or four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind, exceeding 30 cm in height.
A leaf containing a certain number of words; hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.
A leaf of a book or manuscript.

verb:

To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.

folio frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word folio occurs in english on average 1.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics folio can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that folio can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;