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page-turners

page-turners is the plural of page-turner.

Meaning of page-turner

Noun

page-turner (plural page-turners)

  1. (idiomatic) A highly interesting or suspenseful written work that one is compelled to read very rapidly.
    • Her debut novel is such a page-turner that it's one of those books that you can't put down.
  2. A person who is responsible for turning the pages of another musician’s (especially a pianist or organist’s) sheet music during a performance.
    • She's a famous soloist today, but she did her time as a page-turner, just as many others have done.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see page, turner.

Questions about page-turners

What is page-turners the plural of?
Page-turners is the plural of page-turner.

Words near page-turners in the dictionary

  1. page-one rewrite
  2. page-one rewrites
  3. page-three girl
  4. page-three girls
  5. page-turner
  6. page-turners
  7. page-turny
  8. pageability
  9. pageable
  10. pageant
  11. pageant fever

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Adapted from Wiktionary: page-turners (page history and authors); page-turner (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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