page Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
  2. noun English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
    Sir Frederick Handley Page.
  3. noun United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922)
    Thomas Nelson Page.
  4. noun a boy who is employed to run errands
    pageboy.
  5. noun a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
  6. noun in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
    varlet.
  7. verb contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
  8. verb work as a page
    • He is paging in Congress this summer
  9. verb number the pages of a book or manuscript
    paginate; foliate.

WordNet

Page noun
Etymology
F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. , dim. of , , a boy, servant; perh. akin to L. puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.
Definitions
  1. A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doin errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy emploed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
    He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one. Bacon.
  2. A boy child. Obs. Chaucer.
  3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
  4. (Brickmaking.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  5. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
Page transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To attend (one) as a page. Obs. Shak.
Page noun
Etymology
F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination.
Definitions
  1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
    Such was the book from whose pages she sang. Longfellow.
  2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
  3. (Print.) The type set up for printing a page.
Page transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Paged ; present participle & verbal noun Paging
Definitions
  1. To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuskript; to furnish with folios.

Webster 1913