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page

/peɪd͡ʒ/

page noun: one of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. Also the clipping of memory page.

Noun (1)

page (plural pages)

  1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
    • The book which he was reading had 213 pages.
    • The graph is on page 30, but I opened the textbook at page 32.
  2. One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
    Synonyms:
    folio, side
  3. (figuratively) A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
    • a page from history
  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.
    • To view man pages for a command: Type man followed by the name of the command (for example, man ls), and press Return. […] To view the next page: Press Spacebar. The manual advances one page […].2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 44
  6. (Internet) A web page.
  7. A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

Verb (1)

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

  1. (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
    Synonyms:
    paginate
  2. (intransitive, often) To turn several pages of a publication.
    • The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
  3. (transitive) To furnish with folios.

Noun (2)

page (plural pages)

  1. (historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
    Synonyms:
    pageboy
  2. (UK) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  3. (Canada, US) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  4. An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
  5. A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  6. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  7. (dated) A message sent to someone's pager.
    • Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. […] If you were a lawyer or a business executive, maybe you could afford to ignore your pages for a while, but when you were a County Sheriff—and one who was elected rather than appointed—there wasn't much question about...1991, Stephen King, Needful Things, page 355
    • Woman, why don't you be answering any of my pages?1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Murray (Donald Faison)
  8. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

Verb (2)

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

  1. (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
    • Will these moist trees […]page thy heelsc. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. (US, obsolete, transitive) To call or summon (someone).
  3. (dated, transitive) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
    • I'll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
    • It's not even eight thirty and Murray is paging me.1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Dionne (Stacey Dash)
  4. (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
    • An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Page

Page (countable and uncountable, plural Pages)

  1. (countable) An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a servant.
    • Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby.2007 September 10, “Review: Jones, Coens, Penn highlight Toronto”, in CNN
    • Elliot Page has become the first transgender man ever to appear on the cover of Time, as the Canadian actor opened up about his decision to come out last year.2021 March 17, Oscar Holland, “Elliot Page becomes first trans man to appear on Time magazine cover”, in CNN
  2. (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. (alternative) Alternative form of Paige; A female given name.
  4. A city in Coconino County, Arizona.
  5. An unincorporated community in York Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
  6. A neighbourhood of Nokomis community, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  7. A township in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota.
  8. A village in Holt County, Nebraska.
  9. A minor city and township in Cass County, North Dakota.
  10. An unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma.
  11. An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia.
  12. A census-designated place and coal town in Fayette County, West Virginia, named after William Nelson Page.
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  1. A ghost town in King County, Washington.
  2. A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
  3. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Page County.
  4. An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Page

Page (plural Pages)

  1. A surname from French.

Noun (3) capitalized: PAGE

PAGE (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, molecular biology) Acronym of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.

Also used as

page is also the clipping of memory page.

page meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

page in Hindi

one side of a leaf of a book
पृष्ठ pŕṣṭh, पन्ना pannā, पत्र patra, सफ़हा safhā, सफहा saphhā, वरक varak

page in Tamil

one of the pieces of paper bound together within a book or document
தாள் tāḷ
one side of a leaf of a book
பக்கம் pakkam
collective memory
பக்கம் pakkam

page in Marathi

computing: contiguous block of memory
पेज pej
one of the pieces of paper bound together within a book or document
पान pān
one side of a leaf of a book
पान pān, पृष्ठ pŕṣṭha
serving boy
पेज pej

page in Urdu

one side of a leaf of a book
صَفْحَہ safha, پَنّا pannā, پیج pej
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page in Bengali
পাতা pata
page in Telugu
పేజీ pējī, పుట puṭa, పొరట poraṭa
page in Malayalam
പുറം puṟaṁ, താൾ tāḷ
page in Kannada
ಪುಟ puṭa, ಹಾಳೆ hāḷe
page in Punjabi
ਸਫ਼ਾ safā
page in Gujarati
પૃષ્ઠ pŕṣṭh
page in Odia
ପୃଷ୍ଠା pruṣṭhā
page in Sanskrit
पृष्ठ pṛṣṭha
page in Sinhala
පිටුව piṭuwa
page in Assamese
পাত pat, পৃষ্ঠা pristha
page in Nepali
पृष्ठ pr̥ṣṭha
page in Pashto
مخ max, صفحه safha
page in Tagalog
pahina
page in Arabic
صَفْحَة ṣafḥa, صفحة ṣafḥa
page in Malay
halaman, muka surat, syatar
page in Indonesian
halaman, laman
page in Persian
رویَه rōya, صَفْحَه safha, رویِه ruye, صَفْحِه safhe
page in Thai
หน้า nâa
page in Vietnamese
trang
page in Myanmar
စာမျက်နှာ ca-myakhna
Sindhi
پاسو pāso
Dhivehi
ސަފްހާ safhā, ސަފުހާ safuhā
Kashmiri
وَرُق varuq

Examples of page in a sentence

  • Such was the book from whose pages she sang.1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems...
  • Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

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Synonyms of page

Forms of page

Noun
pluralpages
Verb
third-person singular presentpages
present participlepaging
past participlepaged
pastpaged
Proper noun
pluralPages
alternative formPaige

Plural of page: pages

Origin of page

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

From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Medieval 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.

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Questions about page

What does page mean?
Page means one of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
What is page in Hindi?
Page in Hindi is पृष्ठ (pŕṣṭh), पन्ना (pannā), पत्र (patra). See Page meaning in Hindi.
How do you use page in a sentence?
Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
What part of speech is page?
Page can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce page?
Page is pronounced /peɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of page?
The plural of page is pages.

Words near page in the dictionary

  1. Pagbabangnan
  2. Pagbilao
  3. PAGCOR
  4. pagdi
  5. pagdis
  6. page
  7. page boy
  8. page boys
  9. page break
  10. page breaks
  11. Page County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: page (page history and authors); Page (page history and authors); PAGE (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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