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.
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