Definition of page Page

/pejˈʤ/ - [peyj] - Page

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Noun

Plural: pages

page - one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
  folio, leaf a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages; "the first folio of Shakespeare's plays"
  full page something that covers an entire page; "the ad took up a full page"
  half page something that covers (the top or bottom) half of a page
  recto right-hand page
  verso left-hand page
  title page a page of a book displaying the title and author and publisher
  bastard title, half title a first page of some books displaying only the title of the book
  sports page any page in the sports section of a newspaper
  facing pages, spread head, spreadhead, spread act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
  foldout, gatefold an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine
  page number, pagination, paging, folio the system of numbering pages
  margin an amount beyond the minimum necessary; "the margin of victory"
page - a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
  attendant, attender, tender a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees"
page - United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922)
  Thomas Nelson Page
page - in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
  varlet
page - a boy who is employed to run errands
  pageboy
page - English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
  Sir Frederick Handley Page

Verb

pages, paging, paged  

page - contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
  summon call in an official matter, such as to attend court
page - work as a page; "He is paging in Congress this summer"
  work arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times"
page - number the pages of a book or manuscript
  foliate, paginate
  number place a limit on the number of
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  • page (Noun)
    One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
  • page (Noun)
    One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
  • page (Noun)
    A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
  • page (Noun)
    The type set up for printing a leaf.
  • page (Noun)
    A web page .
  • page (Noun)
    A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
  • page (Noun)
    A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
  • page (Noun)
    A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  • page (Noun)
    A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  • page (Noun)
    The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
  • page (Noun)
    A boy child.
  • page (Noun)
    A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  • page (Noun)
    A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  • page (Noun)
    Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
  • page (Verb)
    To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
  • page (Verb)
    To turn several pages of a publication.
  • page (Verb)
    To furnish with folios.
  • page (Verb)
    To attend someone as a page.
  • page (Verb)
    To call or summon someone.
  • page (Verb)
    To contact someone by means of a pager.
  • page (Verb)
    To call somebody using a public address system so as to find them.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • page (n.)
    A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  • page (n.)
    A boy child.
  • page (n.)
    A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
  • page (n.)
    A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  • page (n.)
    Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
  • page (v. t.)
    To attend (one) as a page.
  • page (n.)
    One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
  • page (n.)
    Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
  • page (n.)
    The type set up for printing a page.
  • page (v. t.)
    To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • page
    One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
  • page
    A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • page
    pāj, n. a boy attending on a person of distinction: a young lad employed as attendant: a contrivance for holding up a woman's skirt in walking.—n. Page′hood, condition of a page. [Fr. page; acc. to Littré, prob. from Low L. pagensis, a peasant—L. pagus, a village; acc. to Diez, but hardly with probability, through the It. paggio, from Gr. paidion, dim. of pais, paidos, a boy.]
  • page
    pāj, n. one side of a written or printed leaf—4 pages in a folio sheet, 8 in a quarto, 16 in an octavo, 24 in a duodecimo, 36 in an octodecimo: a book, record, or source of knowledge: the type, illustrations, &c. arranged for printing one side of a leaf: (pl.) writings.—v.t. to number the pages of.—adj. Pag′inal.—v.t. Pag′ināte, to mark with consecutive numbers, to page.—ns. Paginā′tion, the act of paging a book: the figures and marks that indicate the number of pages; Pā′ging, the marking or numbering of the pages of a book. [Fr.,—L. pagina, a thing fastened—pangĕre, to fasten.]

Part of speech

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  • page, verb, present, 1st person singular of page (infinitive).
  • page, verb (infinitive).
  • page, noun, singular of pages.

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