page
//peɪd͡ʒ//
Forms
- Plural
- pages
- present (v1)
- page
- past (v2)
- paged
- past participle (v3)
- paged
- present participle
- paging
- 3rd person singular
- pages
Definitions
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.
- Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
2.One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
- There is a page missing.
3.A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
- There is a page missing.
4.The type set up for printing a page.
- There is a page missing.
1.To furnish with folios.
2.To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
3.To turn several pages of a publication.
- The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
4.To attend (someone) as a page.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #624
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.
Doublet of pagina.