pager
Syllables: pag·er/peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
pager noun: a wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
Noun
pager (plural pagers)
- A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
- Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. Alan pushed the button that turned the hateful gadget off and stood indecisively in front of the shop door a moment longer […]1991, Stephen King, Needful Things, page 355
- I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom / I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em2000, “Stan”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem
- Synonyms:
- beeper
- A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.
- more is a pager. The basic purpose of a pager is that it lets you view the contents of a file without actually having to open the file.2006, James Duncan Davidson, Jason Deraleau, Running Mac OS X Tiger, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 73
- Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
- Sunday papers kept growing in bulk, however. The Boston Globes standard eight-page Sunday offering swelled to forty pages in 1895, and sixty pages soon after. The New York World issued a record-breaking hundred-pager' in 1893 to celebrate its tenth anniversary under Pulitzer's ownership.2019, Vincent DiGirolamo, Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 309–310
- One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.
Proper noun capitalized: PAGER
PAGER
- Acronym of Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response, a monitoring system for earthquakes.
- The PAGER team takes information from a “shake map”—which guesses how much shaking there will be at various distances and directions from the earthquake’s epicenter—and compares that with a map of local populations.2013 September 24, Daniel Engber, “Major Quake in Pakistan: Two Reported Dead, Experts Guess Several Thousand More”, in Slate Magazine
pager meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Arabic and Malay
pager in Hindi
- device
- पेजर pejar
pager in Urdu
- device
- پیجَر pejar
pager in Arabic
- device
- بِيْجِر beyjer, مُنَادٍ munādin
pager in Malay
- device
- alat kelui
More languagesFewer languages
- pager in Indonesian
- penyeranta, radio panggil
- pager in Thai
- เพจเจอร์ pèet-jə̂ə
- pager in Vietnamese
- máy nhắn tin
Synonyms of pager
Forms of pager
| plural | pagers |
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Origin of pager
From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).
Words formed from pager
Words that rhyme with pager
Questions about pager
- What does pager mean?
- Pager means a wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
- What is pager in Hindi?
- Pager in Hindi is पेजर (pejar). See Pager meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is pager?
- Pager can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce pager?
- Pager is pronounced /peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of pager?
- The plural of pager is pagers.
Words near pager in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pager (page history and authors); PAGER (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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