pageturner
pageturner is the alternative spelling of page-turner.
Meaning of page-turner
Noun
page-turner (plural page-turners)
- 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.
- 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.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see page, turner.
Forms of pageturner
| plural | pageturners |
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Questions about pageturner
- What is pageturner the alternative spelling of?
- Pageturner is the alternative spelling of page-turner.
Words near pageturner in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pageturner (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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