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 wordpage is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
page is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary