one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
the entire leaf of such a printed or written thing.
He tore out one of the pages.
a single sheet of paper for writing.
a noteworthy or distinctive event or period.
a reign that formed a gloomy page in English history.
Printing. the type set and arranged for a page.
Computers.
a relatively small block of main or secondary storage, up to about 1024 words.
a block of program instructions or data stored in main or secondary storage.
(in word processing) a portion of a document.
to paginate.
to turn pages (usually followed bythrough ).
to page through a book looking for a specific passage.
a boy servant or attendant.
a youth in attendance on a person of rank or, in medieval times, a youth being trained for knighthood.
an attendant or employee, usually in uniform, who carries messages, ushers guests, runs errands, etc.
a person employed by a legislature to carry messages and run errands for the members, as in the U.S. Congress.
to summon formally by calling out the name of repeatedly.
He had his father paged in the hotel lobby.
to summon or alert by electronic pager.
to control (an electrical appliance, machine, etc.) remotely by means of an electronic signal.
to attend as a page.
Thomas Nelson, 1853–1922, U.S. novelist and diplomat.
Walter Hines, 1855–1918, U.S. journalist, editor, and diplomat.
a boy employed to run errands, carry messages, etc, for the guests in a hotel, club, etc
a youth in attendance at official functions or ceremonies, esp weddings
medieval history
a boy in training for knighthood in personal attendance on a knight
a youth in the personal service of a person of rank, esp in a royal household
page of the chamber
(in the US) an attendant at Congress or other legislative body
a person employed in the debating chamber of the House of Commons, the Senate, or a legislative assembly to carry messages for members
to call out the name of (a person), esp by a loudspeaker system, so as to give him a message
to call (a person) by an electronic device, such as a pager
to act as a page to or attend as a page
p. one side of one of the leaves of a book, newspaper, letter, etc or the written or printed matter it bears
such a leaf considered as a unit
insert a new page
a screenful of information from a website, teletext service, etc, displayed on a television monitor or visual display unit
an episode, phase, or period
a glorious page in the revolution
printing the type as set up for printing a page
another word for paginate
to look through (a book, report, etc); leaf through
Sir Earle ( Christmas Grafton ). 1880–1961, Australian statesman; co-leader, with S. M. Bruce, of the federal government of Australia (1923–29)
Sir Frederick Handley. 1885–1962, English pioneer in the design and manufacture of aircraft
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”
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English noun page, paige, from Old French, of uncertain origin
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."
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Hundreds of comments of support have poured in on the restaurant’s Instagram page.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
"They harvested a nerve from his leg to replace part of the nerve that was missing in his left arm," his parents said on the fundraising page, which has so far raised over £67,000.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Bernd Schäfer, chief executive of EU-funded EIT RawMaterials, said the Europeans should take a page from the U.S.’s more decisive approach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
I believe we’re all on the same page.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Read the first three chapters and then we can quiz each other,” he said, his eyes never leaving the page.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
The new parents were spotted with their baby at a Tuesday press event for Wilson’s upcoming Netflix series, “The Hawk,” according to People and Page Six.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
US tabloid Page Six reported Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid, a longtime member of Swift's friend circle, had also arrived at the venue.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
“In many ways, any change to how California voters cast their ballots made between now and election day would create a challenge and may even be disruptive,” Page said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The Post’s Page Six has been particularly dogged, dropping new details the minute they’re confirmed: A 40-foot mirror ball!
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
But suddenly, after the telltale Page 87 haircut…nothing.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
Sometimes, recalling another ingredient needed, she called Safeway and had her husband paged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
They were recently paged to a fire in Carrick Castle, a village about six miles from Lochgoilhead.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024
The OB resident escalated to her senior, who paged her attending and the anesthesiologist on call.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2023
Davis has devotedly taken care of these binders and scrapbooks over the years, she said, as we paged through a few in a quiet booth at a New York diner.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2023
Emma worked the phone, Horace fished our last few coins from his pocket, and Millard paged through a chunky phone book that dangled from a cord.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
“This looks so good,” she says, paging through.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2023
I kept swiping, paging through one video after another like a person possessed.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2023
After more than 20 years of flying, he’s developed a system for paging through NOTAMs to find reports that are most relevant.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 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 handed the book over, and Dr. Holden began paging through it slowly.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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