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English - Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /peɪdʒ/
Rhymes: -eɪdʒ
(Tasmanian) IPA^(key): /paːʒ/

English - Etymology 1

Via Middle French from Latin pāgina.

Noun

page (plural pages)

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.
One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.

the page of history
(typography) The type set up for printing a page.
(Internet) A web page.
(computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

Synonyms

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

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Verb

page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)

(transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
(intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.

The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
(transitive) To furnish with folios.

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English - Etymology 2

From Old French _page_, possibly via Italian _paggio_, from Late Latin _pagius_ (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek _παιδίον_ (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from _παῖς_ (paîs, “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 PAGE (_plural_ PAGES) * (obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education. * (UK) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households. * (US) A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. * (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. * A boy child. * 1380+, Geoffrey Chaucer, _The Canterbury Tales_ A doghter hadde they bitwixe hem two / Of twenty yeer, with-outen any mo, / Savinge a child that was of half-yeer age; / In cradel it lay and was a propre PAGE. * A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground. * A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack. * Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus _Urania_. SYNONYMS * (serving boy): page boy * (boy child): boy TRANSLATIONS VERB PAGE (_third-person singular simple present_ PAGES, _present participle_ PAGING, _simple past and past participle_ PAGED) * (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page. (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?) * (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone). * (transitive) To contact (someone) by means of a pager. _I’ll be out all day, so PAGE me if you need me._ * (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?_ TRANSLATIONS

From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “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.