page

UK: /ˈpeɪdʒ/ US: /peɪdʒ/ ,(pāj)

Inflections of 'page' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

pages

v 3rd person singular

paging

v pres p

paged

v past

paged

v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

page¹ /peɪdʒ/   n., v., paged, pag•ing. 
n. [countable]

1. Printing one side, or both sides, of a sheet of something printed or written, as a book or letter:
   How many pages are there in this book?
2. an important event or period:
   a bright page in English history.
3. Computing
   • Computing a block of computer memory up to 4,096 bytes long.

v. 

4. page through, [~ + through + object] to turn pages of (a book).

page² /peɪdʒ/   n., v., paged, pag•ing. 
n. [countable]

1. a boy servant or attendant.
2. Government an employee who carries messages, etc., as in a legislature.

v. [~ + object]

3. to summon (a person) by calling out his or her name, as over a public-address system:
   He must be somewhere at the airport; let's see if we can page him.
4. to summon or alert by electronic pager:
   The doctor was paged repeatedly.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

page¹  (pāj), n., v., paged, pag•ing. 
n. 

1. Printing one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
2. Printing the entire leaf of such a printed or written thing:
   He tore out one of the pages.
3. Printing a single sheet of paper for writing.
4. a noteworthy or distinctive event or period:
   a reign that formed a gloomy page in English history.
5. Printing Print. the type set and arranged for a page.
6. Computing
   • Computing a relatively small block of main or secondary storage, up to about 1024 words.
   • a block of program instructions or data stored in main or secondary storage.
   • (in word processing) a portion of a document.
7. Computing See Web page.

v.t. 

8. Printing to paginate.
9. to turn pages (usu. fol. by through):
   to page through a book looking for a specific passage.

• Latin pāgina column of writing, akin to pangere to fix, make fast
• Middle French
• 1580–90

page²  (pāj), n., v., paged, pag•ing. 
n. 

1. a boy servant or attendant.
2. Government a youth in attendance on a person of rank or, in medieval times, a youth being trained for knighthood.
3. Government an attendant or employee, usually in uniform, who carries messages, ushers guests, runs errands, etc.
4. Government a person employed by a legislature to carry messages and run errands for the members, as in the U.S. Congress.

v.t. 

5. to summon formally by calling out the name of repeatedly:
   He had his father paged in the hotel lobby.
6. to summon or alert by electronic pager.
7. Electricity to control (an electrical appliance, machine, etc.) remotely by means of an electronic signal.
8. to attend as a page.

• ?
• Old French
• Middle English (noun, nominal) 1250–1300

Page  (pāj), n. 

1. Biographical Thomas Nelson, 1853–1922, U.S. novelist and diplomat.
2. Biographical Walter Hines, 1855–1918, U.S. journalist, editor, and diplomat.

page, +n. 

1. Computing See Web page (in this section).

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

page / peɪdʒ/ noun

1. one side of one of the leaves of a book, newspaper, letter, etc, or the written or printed matter it bears
2. such a leaf considered as a unit
3. a screenful of information from a website, teletext service, etc, displayed on a television monitor or visual display unit
4. an episode, phase, or period: a glorious page in the revolution
5. on the same page ⇒ working in harmony

verb

1. another word for paginate

Etymology: 15th Century: via Old French from Latin pāgina

page / peɪdʒ/ noun

1. a boy employed to run errands, carry messages, etc, for the guests in a hotel, club, etc
2. a youth in attendance at official functions or ceremonies, esp weddings
3. a boy in training for knighthood in personal attendance on a knight
4. a youth in the personal service of a person of rank, esp in a royal household

verb (transitive)

1. to call out the name of (a person), esp by a loudspeaker system, so as to give him or her a message
2. to call (a person) by an electronic device, such as a pager
3. to act as a page to or attend as a page

Etymology: 13th Century: via Old French from Italian paggio, probably from Greek paidion boy, from pais child

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Page / peɪdʒ/ noun

1. Sir Earle (Christmas Grafton). 1880–1961, Australian statesman; co-leader, with S. M. Bruce, of the federal government of Australia (1923–29)
2. Sir Frederick Handley. 1885–1962, English pioneer in the design and manufacture of aircraft