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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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Anyone who is willing to turn the page, restore integrity and rebuild our party can count me in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Being on the same page has seemed like a challenge for Carrick and his players.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Even before AI summaries took over the first page of search-engine results, those results weren’t exactly getting a ton of click-throughs.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Another common belief is that reading difficulties arise primarily from problems interpreting the words and letters on a page.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

That fumbling page had unnerved me, just as much as the ceaseless tattering of branches and the gusting winds that had howled in my ears as I’d trudged across the city that night.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Page hopes to address that question in a future intervention study.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

The journalists said in 2023 they were in the process of divorcing their exes when the Daily Mail and Page Six reported on their romance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

I also worked at a theater in Falmouth, Mass., where I closely studied star actors such as Geraldine Page, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Basil Rathbone and Gordon MacRae.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

PHP -- a name that originally stood for Personal Home Page -- underpins popular web design platforms, meaning the flaws could allow hackers to break into various sites, from online stores to government services.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Page 82 Each day, we had a brief reading assignment full of statistics and real-world examples.

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

One paged titled "the most ridiculous things" is filled with plenty of wacky ideas to inspire creatives.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026

But the degree of the congressman’s mendaciousness grew increasingly impressive as reporters paged through the Santos Files.

From Slate ● Nov. 16, 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

She paged through the books, looking more and more puzzled.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

“You’ve always got to prove it as a writer,” says McDonagh, a seven-time nominee, in an interview near his home in London while paging through his rough draft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

“This looks so good,” she says, paging through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 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

We sit on the big bed, paging through the Life magazines Mrs. Washburn left for us when she moved out.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

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