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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA : /peɪdʒ/
  • SAMPA : /peIdZ/

Noun

page (plural pages)

  1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
  2. The type set up for printing a page.
  3. 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 employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  4. A boy child.
  5. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
  6. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  7. Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
  8. (figurative) A record; a writing.
    the page of history

Synonyms

Translations

one side of a leaf of a book

  • Arabic: صَفحة (sˁafħa)
  • Czech: strana f, stránka f
  •  : pagina c, bladzijde c
    sivu
  • French: page f
  • German: Seite f
  • Gujarati: પૃષ્ઠ n
  • Hebrew: אמות f
  • Hindi: पृष्ठ n
  • leathanach
  • Ido: pagino
  • Italian: pagina f
    side
  • Persian: صَفحِه (sæfhe)
  • Polish: strona f, stronica f
    страница
  • Slovak: strana f, stránka f
  • Spanish: página f
  • Swedish: sida c

type set up for printing a page

serving boy

  • Dutch: page
  • Slovak: páža n, pážatko n
  • Swedish: page

boy child See boy

contrivance to hold a skirt from the ground

track along which bricks are conveyed

moth

record

  • Slovak: stránka f

Transitive verb

to page (paging, paged)

  1. To attend (someone) as a page.
  2. To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript
  3. To furnish with folios.
  4. To call or summon (someone).
  5. To contact (someone) by means of a pager.

attend as a page

mark the pages of

furnish with folios

call or summon See call and summon

contact by means of a pager

Related terms

  • page boy

French

Noun

page f

  1. page (of a book, etc)

Noun

page m

  1. page, page boy

Swedish

Noun

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

  1. page, serving boy



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