Definition of PAGE

page

Meanings

Plural: pages

Noun

  • one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
  • English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
  • United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922)
  • a boy who is employed to run errands
  • a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
  • in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
  • One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
  • One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
  • A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
  • The type set up for printing a page.
  • A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
  • A web page.
  • A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
  • A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
  • A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  • A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  • The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
  • A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  • A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  • A message sent to someone's pager.
  • Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

Verb

  • contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
  • work as a page
  • number the pages of a book or manuscript
  • To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
  • To turn several pages of a publication.
  • To furnish with folios.
  • To attend (someone) as a page.
  • To call or summon (someone).
  • To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
  • To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.

Origin / Etymology

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

Synonyms

foliate, folio, pageboy, paginate, side, Sir Frederick Handley Page, Thomas Nelson Page, varlet

Scrabble Score: 7

page is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
page is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
page is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

page is a valid Words With Friends word