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Via Old French from Latin pāgina.
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page (plural pages)
- One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
- A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
- the page of history
- (typography) The type set up for printing a leaf.
- (Internet) A web page.
- (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
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to page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)
- (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript
- (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
- The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
- (transitive) To furnish with folios.
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From Italian paggio, probably from Greek παιδίον (“‘boy’”), from παῖς (“‘child’”). Used In English from 13th century onwards.
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page (plural pages)
- (obsolete) A serving boy - a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education;
- (British) a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households;
- (US) a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- (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.
- A boy child.
- 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.
- Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
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to page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)
- (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
- (transitive) To contact (someone) by means of a pager.
- I'll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
- (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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page f. (plural pages)
- page (of a book, etc)
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page m. (plural pages)
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page c. (plural pager, def singular pagen, def plural pagerna)

