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noun
1.
One side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains.
2.
English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962).  Synonym: Sir Frederick Handley Page.
3.
United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922).  Synonym: Thomas Nelson Page.
4.
A boy who is employed to run errands.  Synonym: pageboy.
5.
A youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings.
6.
In medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood.  Synonym: varlet.
verb
(past & past part. paged; pres. part. paging)
1.
Contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system.
2.
Work as a page.
3.
Number the pages of a book or manuscript.  Synonyms: foliate, paginate.



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"Page" Quotes from Famous Books



... place in literature, having been laureated by no less a poet than Bryant, and invested with a lasting human charm in the sunny page of Irving, and is the only one of our songsters, I believe, that the mockingbird cannot parody or imitate. He affords the most marked example of exuberant pride, and a glad, rollicking, holiday spirit, that can be seen among our birds. Every note ...
— Bird Stories from Burroughs - Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs • John Burroughs
... quote to you on the care of scions from J. F. Jones' paper on "The Propagation of Nut Trees" in the 1927 Report of the Annual Meeting of the Northern Nut Growers Association, page 104: ...
— Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association
... a page of their history that is not marred by a recital of some foul deed. The whole history of the Mormon Church abounds in illustrations of the selfishness, deceit, and lawlessness of its leaders and members. Founded in fraud, built up by the most audacious deception, this organization has ...
— Fifty Years of Public Service • Shelby M. Cullom
... brought her grief, for my aim was a life for a life, Well-a-day! come here "Chronicle," let us see if you have a word To calm the current of burning thoughts that down to their depths are stirred, I'll read the first thing I meet with, murders, fires, or kingdoms riven; Oh you are the first on the page, "Vera, to her lover ...
— Victor Roy, A Masonic Poem • Harriet Annie Wilkins
... gives him the clue—every page and line and letter. The thing's as concrete there as a bird in a cage, a bait on a hook, a piece of cheese in a mouse-trap. It's stuck into every volume as your foot is stuck into your shoe. It governs every line, it chooses every ...
— The Figure in the Carpet • Henry James


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