/ peɪdʒ; NAmE / noun , verb
■ noun
1.
( abbr. p ) one side or both sides of a sheet of paper in a book, magazine, etc. :
Turn to page 64.
Someone has torn a page out of this book.
a blank / new page
the sports / financial pages of the newspaper
on the opposite / facing page
over the page (= on the next page)
—see also front page , full-page , Yellow Pages
2.
a section of data or information that can be shown on a computer screen at any one time
—see also home page
3.
( literary ) an important event or period of history :
a glorious page of Arab history
4.
= pageboy
5.
( NAmE ) a student who works as an assistant to a member of the US Congress
6.
( in the Middle Ages ) a boy or young man who worked for a knight while training to be a knight himself
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IDIOMS
- on the same page
- turn the page
—more at print verb
■ verb [ vn ]
1.
to call sb's name over a public address system in order to find them and give them a message :
Why don't you have him paged at the airport?
2.
to contact sb by sending a message to their pager :
Page Dr Green immediately.
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PHRASAL VERBS
- page through sth
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WORD ORIGIN
noun senses 1 to 3 late 16th cent.: from French , from Latin pagina , from pangere fasten.
noun senses 4 to 6 and verb Middle English (in the sense youth, uncouth male ): from Old French , perhaps from Italian paggio , from Greek paidion , diminutive of pais , paid- boy. Early use of the verb (mid 16th cent.) was in the sense follow as or like a page ; its current sense dates from the early 20th cent.