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Universal Words noun, verb noun 1 (abbreviation p) one side or both sides of a sheet of paper in a book, magazine, etc: Turn to page 64. * Someone has torn a page out of this book. * a blank / new page * the sports / financial pages of the newspaper * on the opposite / facing page * over the page (= on the next page) seealsoFRONT-PAGE, FULL-PAGE, YELLOWPAGES 2 a section of data or information that can be shown on a computer screen at any one time seealsoHOMEPAGE 3 (literary) an important event or period of history: a glorious page of Arab history 4 (BrE) = PAGEBOY 5 (in the Middle Ages) a boy or young man who worked for a KNIGHT while training to be a knight himself 6 (AmE) a student who works as an assistant to a member of the US Congress IDIOMS see PRINTv. verb [VN] 1 to call sb's name over a PUBLICADDRESSSYSTEM in order to find them and give them a message: Why don't you have him paged at the airport? 2 to contact sb by sending a message to their PAGER: Page Dr Green immediately.