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Page   /peɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Page  n.  
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."
2.
A boy child. (Obs.)
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.
(Zool.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.


Page  n.  
1.
One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. "Such was the book from whose pages she sang."
2.
Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
3.
(Print.) The type set up for printing a page.


verb
page  v. t.  
1.
To attend (one) as a page. (Obs.)
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.


Page  v. t.  (past & past part. paged; pres. part. paging)  To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.





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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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