Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A boy who acted as a knight's attendant as the first stage of training for chivalric knighthood.
  • noun A youth in ceremonial employment or attendance at court.
  • noun One who is employed to run errands, carry messages, or act as a guide in a hotel, theater, or club.
  • noun One who is similarly employed in the US Congress or another legislature.
  • noun A boy who holds the bride's train at a wedding.
  • transitive verb To summon or call (a person) by name.
  • transitive verb To contact (someone) by sending a message to his or her pager.
  • transitive verb To attend as a page.
  • noun A side of a sheet of paper, as in a book or newspaper.
  • noun The writing or printing on one side of a page.
  • noun The type set for printing one side of a page.
  • noun A noteworthy or memorable event.
  • noun Computers A webpage.
  • noun Computers A quantity of memory storage equal to between 512 and 4,096 bytes.
  • noun A source or record of knowledge.
  • intransitive verb To number the pages of; paginate.
  • intransitive verb To turn pages.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A male servant or attendant.
  • noun A boy or young man who attends upon the members and officers of a legislative body while in session: as, a Senate page; the pages in the House of Representatives.
  • noun A stable-boy; a groom.
  • noun A shepherd's servant, whether boy or man.
  • noun In general, a child; a boy; a lad.
  • noun A contrivance of cord and steel clips for holding up a woman's train or skirt to prevent it from dragging on the ground.
  • noun One side of a written or printed leaf, as of a book or pamphlet.
  • noun In printing, types, or types and cuts, properly arranged as to length and width for printing on one side of the leaf of a book or pamphlet.
  • noun Any writing or printed record: as, the page of history; also, figuratively, a book: as, the sacred page.
  • noun In the manufacture of bricks by hand-molding, a slideway formed of iron rails on wooden supports.
  • To mark or number the pages of (a book or manuscript).
  • To make up (composed type) into pages.
  • To attend as a page.
  • noun Any one of several South American uraniid butterflies marked with black and green in such a manner as to suggest a page's uniform.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.
  • transitive verb obsolete To attend (one) as a page.
  • transitive verb To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc.
  • transitive verb To call a person on a pager.
  • noun One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
  • noun A record; a writing.
  • noun (Print.) The type set up for printing a page.
  • noun 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 doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United States Congress.
  • noun obsolete A boy child.
  • noun A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
  • noun (Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  • noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
  • noun UK A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  • noun US A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  • noun 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.
  • noun A boy child.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French, of unknown origin.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle French, from Old French, from Latin pāgina; see pag- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius ("servant"), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidion, "boy, lad"), from παῖς (pais, "child"); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus ("countryside"), in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Via Old French from Latin pāgina.

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