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  noun

  one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
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  Thomas Nelson, 1853–1922, U.S. novelist and diplomat.

page

¹ American  

[payj] / peɪdʒ /

noun

1. one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.

2. the entire leaf of such a printed or written thing.

   He tore out one of the pages.

3. a single sheet of paper for writing.

4. a noteworthy or distinctive event or period.

   a reign that formed a gloomy page in English history.

5. Printing. the type set and arranged for a page.

6. Computers.

   1. web page.

   2. a relatively small block of main or secondary storage, up to about 1024 words.

   3. a block of program instructions or data stored in main or secondary storage.

   4. (in word processing) a portion of a document.

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verb (used with object)

paged, paging

1. to paginate.

2. to turn pages (usually followed bythrough ).

   to page through a book looking for a specific passage.

idioms

1. on the same page, (of two or more people) having a similar understanding or way of thinking.

   Parents should be on the same page about raising their children.

page ² American  

[payj] / peɪdʒ /

noun

1. a boy servant or attendant.

2. a youth in attendance on a person of rank or, in medieval times, a youth being trained for knighthood.

3. an attendant or employee, usually in uniform, who carries messages, ushers guests, runs errands, etc.

4. a person employed by a legislature to carry messages and run errands for the members, as in the U.S. Congress.

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verb (used with object)

paged, paging

1. to summon formally by calling out the name of repeatedly.

   He had his father paged in the hotel lobby.

2. to summon or alert by electronic pager.

3. to control (an electrical appliance, machine, etc.) remotely by means of an electronic signal.

4. to attend as a page.

Page ³ American  

[payj] / peɪdʒ /

noun

1. Thomas Nelson, 1853–1922, U.S. novelist and diplomat.

2. Walter Hines, 1855–1918, U.S. journalist, editor, and diplomat.

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page ¹ British  

/ peɪdʒ /

noun

1. a boy employed to run errands, carry messages, etc, for the guests in a hotel, club, etc

2. a youth in attendance at official functions or ceremonies, esp weddings

3. medieval history

   1. a boy in training for knighthood in personal attendance on a knight

   2. a youth in the personal service of a person of rank, esp in a royal household

      page of the chamber

4. (in the US) an attendant at Congress or other legislative body

5. a person employed in the debating chamber of the House of Commons, the Senate, or a legislative assembly to carry messages for members

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verb

1. to call out the name of (a person), esp by a loudspeaker system, so as to give him a message

2. to call (a person) by an electronic device, such as a pager

3. to act as a page to or attend as a page

page ² British  

/ peɪdʒ /

noun

1. p. one side of one of the leaves of a book, newspaper, letter, etc or the written or printed matter it bears

2. such a leaf considered as a unit

   insert a new page

3. a screenful of information from a website, teletext service, etc, displayed on a television monitor or visual display unit

4. an episode, phase, or period

   a glorious page in the revolution

5. printing the type as set up for printing a page

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verb

1. another word for paginate

2. to look through (a book, report, etc); leaf through

Page ³ British  

/ peɪdʒ /

noun

1. Sir Earle ( Christmas Grafton ). 1880–1961, Australian statesman; co-leader, with S. M. Bruce, of the federal government of Australia (1923–29)

2. Sir Frederick Handley. 1885–1962, English pioneer in the design and manufacture of aircraft

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Etymology

Origin of page¹

First recorded in 1450–1500; from Middle French, from Latin pāgina “column of writing; leaf of a double door”; akin to pangere “to fix, make fast”

Origin of page²

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English noun page, paige, from Old French, of uncertain origin

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Explanation

A page is one sheet of a book, magazine, or other collection of papers. You can read a page in a children's picture book much faster than a page of War and Peace. If you read a book, turning its pages, you page through it, and if you write a number on each unnumbered page, you could say you page it. There are other pages too, including a medieval knight's assistant and an errand-runner in a legislative office. You can also page someone, or call for them over a speaker in a public place — this meaning comes from the idea of "sending a page to fetch someone."

Example Sentences

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The excuses for the Dodgers collapse flew off the page minutes after the last out of Game 4.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The front page also features a photograph of Pope Leo leading mass, just days after surgery to remove part of his lung.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Snyder joined Tesla in 2014 and worked his way up to lead the company’s Megapack industrial battery division, according to his LinkedIn page.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Rama posted a video on his Facebook page showing him touring the burnt-out remains of an office at a college campus in Tirana.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

As Gabi opens the search engine on her computer, I find myself thinking about Bubbe and why she might have this newspaper page in her box, hidden even more deeply than the rest.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Van Zandt has no signs of slowing down anytime soon, as Page Six recently reported that he is working on screenplays “set in the Garden State.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Rhoad's mother, Page, and his widow, Natalie Weirtz, will also participate in the hearing in a video call from the United States.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

“The only way I know that is it doesn’t get like a gazillion views, but I’m in the Daily Mail and Page Six pretty much every two weeks,” she noted.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

Recently, Page Six claimed Mescal was on the audition list to be the next James Bond, external.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Page through her papers, and you can see signs of the episode’s impact on her.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Sometimes, recalling another ingredient needed, she called Safeway and had her husband paged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

The office clerk went over the house rules, paged through a sheaf of papers for him to sign and peppered him with questions, some superficial and others deep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

The OB resident escalated to her senior, who paged her attending and the anesthesiologist on call.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2023

Five minutes after he was paged over the airport loud speaker, Mr Muffley was seen by security cameras leaving the airport, say the court papers.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2023

Hassan paged through the front section and finally folded the paper carefully to reveal only a small black-and-white picture of a thick-haired bespectacled white male.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

The company which owns and operates the pager network said it provides encrypted paging and secure messaging solutions, with "customers determining how those services are deployed".

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

I kept swiping, paging through one video after another like a person possessed.

From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2023

Another time, Mr. Baron was in the Tampa airport when the intercom summoned him to a white paging telephone.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

It's an unexpectedly sentimental exercise to take stock of how you bedazzle, spice, umami and sweeten your eating life — almost like paging through old photo albums.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2022

I was already up and paging through travel guides when my parents came into my room on Friday morning.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

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