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Syllabification: (page)
Pronunciation: /pāj/

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Definition of page

noun

  • one side of a sheet of paper in a collection of sheets bound together, especially as a book, magazine, or newspaper.
  • the material written or printed on a page:she silently read several pages
  • [with modifier] a page of a newspaper or magazine set aside for a particular topic:the editorial page
  • Printing the type set for the printing of a page.
  • Computing a section of stored data, especially that which can be displayed on a screen at one time.
  • a significant episode or period considered as a part of a longer history:the inconsistency of this transaction has no parallel on any page of our political history

verb

  • 1 [no object] (page through) leaf through (a book, magazine, or newspaper):she was paging through an immense pile of Sunday newspapers
  • Computing move through and display (text) one page at a time.
  • 2 [with object] (usually as noun paging) Computing divide (a piece of software or data) into sections, keeping the most frequently accessed in main memory and storing the rest in virtual memory.
  • 3 [with object] assign numbers to the pages in (a book or periodical); paginate.

Phrases

on the same page

(of two or more people) in agreement.

Derivatives

paged

adjective
[in combination]:a many-paged volume

Origin:

late 16th century: from French, from Latin pagina, from pangere 'fasten'

page in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of page in the British & World English dictionary