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Noun (6)pages
- one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it containsType of leaf, folioKinds title page, half page, sports page, spread, foldout, recto, full page, verso, half titleParts dog-ear, margin, paginationMade of paper
- English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)Synonyms: Sir Frederick Handley PageInstance of industrialist
- United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922)Synonyms: Thomas Nelson PageInstance of diplomat, writer
- a boy who is employed to run errandsSynonyms: pageboyType of messenger boy, errand boy
- a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddingsType of attendant, attender
- in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthoodSynonyms: varletType of attendant, attender
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Translations
Noun one side of a leaf of a book
- Spanish
- página
- French
- page
- German
- Seite
- Italian
- pagina
- Portuguese
- página
- Turkish
- sayfa
- Russian
- страни́ца straníca
- Arabic
- صَفْحَة ṣafḥa
- Japanese
- ページ pēji
- Dutch
- pagina
32 more languages
- Polish
- stronica
- Swedish
- sida
- Greek
- σελίδα selída
- Korean
- 페이지 peiji
- Indonesian
- halaman
- Vietnamese
- trang
- Hungarian
- oldal
- Portuguese (PT)
- página
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 頁 yè
- Albanian
- fletë
- Catalan
- pàgina
- Czech
- stránka
- Danish
- side
- Esperanto
- paĝo
- Estonian
- lehekülg
- Finnish
- sivu
- Georgian
- გვერდი gverdi
- Hebrew
- עַמּוּד amúd
- Icelandic
- blaðsíða
- Kurdish
- rûpel
- Latvian
- lappuse
- Lithuanian
- puslapis
- Norwegian
- side
- Romanian
- pagină
- Scottish Gaelic
- taobh-duilleige
- Serbo-Croatian
- stranica
- Slovak
- strana
- Slovenian
- stran
- Swahili
- ukurasa
- Walloon
- pådje
- Welsh
- tudalen
- Yiddish
- זײַט zayt
Noun serving boy
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. παιδίον, dim. of παῖς, παιδός, a boy, servant; perh. akin to L. puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.
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 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
He had two pages of honor — on either hand one.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
2. A boy child. obsolete Geoffrey 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. Zoology Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
1. To attend (one) as a page. obsolete William Shakespeare
2. To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc.
3. To call a person on a pager.
Origin: F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination.
1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
Such was the book from whose pages she sang.— Henry W. Longfellow
2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
3. Printing The type set up for printing a page.
To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
A typesetting language.
["Computer Composition Using PAGE-1", J.L. Pierson, Wiley 1972].
1.<operating system> paging.
2.<web> web page.
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