Definition of "page" in English

noun

1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.

   • The book which he was reading had 213 pages.
   • The graph is on page 30, but I opened the textbook at page 32.

2. One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.

3. (figurative) A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.

   • a page from history

4. (typography) The type set up for printing a page.

5. (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.

6. (Internet) A web page.

7. (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

verb

1. (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.

2. (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.

   • The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.

3. (transitive) To furnish with folios.

noun

1. (historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.

2. (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.

3. (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.

4. (in libraries) 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. (telecommunications, dated) A message sent to someone's pager.

8. (entomology) Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

verb

1. (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.

2. (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).

3. (transitive, telecommunications, dated) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.

   • I'll be out all day, so page me if you need me.

4. (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.

   • An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?