English Explanatory Dictionary

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English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
  2. One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
  3. A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
  4. The type set up for printing a page.
  5. A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
  6. A web page.
  7. A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
  8. Clipping of memory page.
verb
  1. To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
  2. To turn several pages of a publication.
  3. To furnish with folios.
noun
  1. A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
  2. A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  3. A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  4. An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
  5. A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  6. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  7. A message sent to someone's pager.
  8. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
verb
  1. To attend (someone) as a page.
  2. To call or summon (someone).
  3. To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
  4. To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
name
  1. An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a servant.
  2. A unisex given name.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  4. Alternative form of Paige; A female given name.
  5. A placename in the United States:
  6. A city in Coconino County, Arizona.
  7. An unincorporated community in York Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
  8. A neighbourhood of Nokomis community, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  9. A township in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota.
  10. A village in Holt County, Nebraska.
  11. A minor city and township in Cass County, North Dakota.
  12. An unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma.
name
  1. A surname from French.
noun
  1. Acronym of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.

Pronunciation

/peɪd͡ʒ/ en-us-page.ogg

Word forms

page pages paging paged Paige

Etymology

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

Synonyms

folio side paginate pageboy

Related words

pageant

Derived words

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Translations

Bulgarian: стра́ница Dutch: pagina Dutch: blad Finnish: sivu Greek: σελίδα Marathi: पेज Russian: страни́ца Slovak: stránka French: Lepage
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