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page

Pronunciation: /peɪd͡ʒ/

The English word “page” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
  2. One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
  3. A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
  4. The type set up for printing a page.
  5. A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
  6. A web page.
  7. A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
  8. A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
  9. A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  10. A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  11. An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
  12. A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  13. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  14. A message sent to someone's pager.
  15. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

verb

  1. To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
  2. To turn several pages of a publication.
  3. To furnish with folios.
  4. To attend (someone) as a page.
  5. To call or summon (someone).

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.

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