Page

Pronunciation

• IPA: /peɪdÊ’/
• Rhymes: -eɪdÊ’
• Tasmanian IPA: /paːʒ/

Via Old French from Latin pāgina.

Full definition of page

Noun

1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
• 2013, Henry Petroski, The Evolution of Eyeglasses, The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,.... Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
2. One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
3. A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
   the page of history
4. (typesetting) The type set up for printing a page.
5. (Internet) A web page.
6. (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

Synonyms

• (side of a leaf) side
• (record, writing) account, record

Derived terms

Verb

1. (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
2. (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
3. (transitive) To furnish with folios.

From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius ("servant"), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidion, "boy, lad"), from παῖς (pais, "child"); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus ("countryside"), in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
2. (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
3. (US) A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
4. (in libraries) 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.
5. A boy child.
6. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
7. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
8. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

Synonyms

• (serving boy) page boy
• (boy child) boy

Verb

1. (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
2. (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
3. (transitive) To contact (someone) by means of a pager.I’ll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
4. (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?

Anagrams

• gape