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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Synonyms 1.2.1.2 Derived terms 1.2.1.3 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Synonyms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.2.1 Translations 2 Dutch 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Etymology 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Derived terms 2.4 References 3 French 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Etymology 1 3.2.1 Noun 3.3 Etymology 2 3.3.1 Noun 4 Swedish 4.1 Noun

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Wikipedia

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /peɪdʒ/, SAMPA: /peIdZ/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ
• (Tasmanian) IPA: /paːʒ/

[edit] Etymology 1

Via Old French from Latin pāgina.

[edit] Noun

page (plural pages)

1. One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
2. A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.

   the page of history

3. (typography) The type set up for printing a leaf.
4. (Internet) A web page.
5. (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

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• (side of a leaf): side
• (record, writing): account, record

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to page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)

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.

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Italian paggio, probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (“‘boy’”), from παῖς (“‘child’”). Used In English from 13th century onwards.

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page (plural pages)

1. (obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, 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) A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
4. (in libraries) 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.
5. A boy child.
6. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
7. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
8. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

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• (serving boy): page boy
• (boy child): boy

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to page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)

1. (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
2. (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
3. (transitive) To contact (someone) by means of a pager.

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

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

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

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[edit] Dutch

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpa.ʒə/
• Hyphenation: pa‧ge

[edit] Etymology

From Italian paggio, probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (“‘boy’”), from παῖς (“‘child’”).

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page m. (plural pages, no diminutive)

1. (obsolete) page (serving boy)
2. page (moth)

[edit] Derived terms

• pagekapsel
• pagekop

[edit] References

• “page” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}

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page f. (plural pages)

1. page (of a book, etc.)

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page m. (plural pages)

1. page, page boy

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[edit] Swedish

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page c. (plural pager, def singular pagen, def plural pagerna)

1. page, serving boy