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See also: pagë, PAGE, Page, päge, pagé, and Pagé

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peɪd͡ʒ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Etymology 1

    Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.

    Noun

    page (plural pages)

    1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
      The book which he was reading had 213 pages.
      The graph is on page 30, but I opened the textbook at page 32.
      • 1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
        Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
      • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist‎:
        The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
    2. One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
      Synonyms: folio, side
    3. (figurative) A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
      a page from history
    4. (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
    5. (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
      Hyponyms: help page, man page
      • 2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 44:
        To view man pages for a command: Type man followed by the name of the command (for example, man ls), and press Return. […] To view the next page: Press Spacebar. The manual advances one page […] .
    6. (Internet) A web page.
      Hyponym: homepage
    7. (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • → Hindi: पेज (pej)
    • → Japanese: ページ (pēji)
    • → Korean: 페이지 (peiji), 페지 (peji)
    • → Malayalam: പേജ് (pējŭ)
    • → Telugu: పేజి (pēji)
    Translations
    type set up for printing a page
    Internet: web page — see web page

    Verb

    page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)

    1. (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
      Synonym: paginate
    2. (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
      The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
    3. (transitive) To furnish with folios.

    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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    Etymology 2

      From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Medieval Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “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.

      Noun

      page (plural pages)

      1. (historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
        Synonym: pageboy
      2. (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
      3. (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
      4. (in libraries) An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
      5. A contrivance, such 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. (telecommunications, dated) A message sent to someone's pager.
        • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things, page 355:
          Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. […] If you were a lawyer or a business executive, maybe you could afford to ignore your pages for a while, but when you were a County Sheriff—and one who was elected rather than appointed—there wasn't much question about priorities.
        • 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Murray (Donald Faison):
          Woman, why don't you be answering any of my pages?
      8. (entomology) Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
        (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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      Verb

      page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)

      1. (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
      2. (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
      3. (transitive, telecommunications, dated) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
        I'll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
        • 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Dionne (Stacey Dash):
          It's not even eight thirty and Murray is paging me.
      4. (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
        An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?
      Translations
      attend as a page

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      Pronunciation

      Etymology 1

      From Middle Dutch page, from Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".

      Noun

      page m (plural pages, diminutive pagetje n)

      1. (historical) page (boy serving a knight or noble, often of the noble estate)
        Synonym: edelknaap
      2. a page, a butterfly of the family Papilionidae
        Synonyms: ridder, ridderkapel
      Derived terms
      References
      • “page” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

      Etymology 2

      Borrowed from Middle French page, from Old French page, from Latin pagina.

      Noun

      page m (plural pages, diminutive pagetje n)

      1. (archaic) page (sheet of paper)
        Synonyms: blad, bladzijde, pagina

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      French

      Pronunciation

      Etymology 1

        Inherited from Old French page, a borrowing from Latin pāgina (“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).

        Noun

        page f (plural pages)

        1. page (of a book, etc.)
        2. page, web page
        Derived terms

        Etymology 2

        From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".

        Noun

        page m (plural pages)

        1. page, page boy
        Descendants

        Further reading

        Karo Batak

        Etymology

        From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

        Noun

        page

        1. paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

        References

        Latin

        Noun

        pāge

        1. vocative singular of pāgus

        Middle English

        Etymology

        From Old French page.

        Noun

        page

        1. a boy child

        Norman

        Etymology

        From Old French page, from Latin pāgina (“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).

        Noun

        page f (plural pages)

        1. (Jersey) page

        Old French

        Alternative forms

        Pronunciation

        Etymology 1

          Borrowed from Latin pāgina.

          Noun

          page oblique singular, f (oblique plural pages, nominative singular page, nominative plural pages)

          1. page (one face of a sheet of paper or similar material)
          Descendants

          Etymology 2

          Disputed, see page in English above.

          Noun

          page oblique singular, m (oblique plural pages, nominative singular pages, nominative plural page)

          1. page (youth attending a person of high degree)
          Descendants
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          Spanish

          Noun

          page m (plural pages)

          1. page, pageboy

          Swedish

          Etymology

          From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".

          Pronunciation

          Noun

          page c

          1. page, serving boy
          2. pageboy (hairstyle)
            Synonym: pagefrisyr

          Declension

          More information nominative, genitive ...

          References

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          Tagalog

          Alternative forms

          Etymology

          From Proto-Philippine *paʀih, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih, from Proto-Austronesian *paʀiS. Compare Malay pari & Fijian vai.

          Pronunciation

          Noun

          page (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜄᜒ) (ichthyology)

          1. ray (marine fish)

          Derived terms

          Further reading

          • “page”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
          • “page”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
          • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*paRiS”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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