page

1 /peIdZ/ noun (C)

1 PAPER one side of a sheet of paper in a book, newspaper etc, or the sheet of paper itself: There's a picture on the next page. | I've made several pages of notes. | an eight-page booklet | front/back page (=of a newspaper): The story was all over the front page. | see/turn to page 5/20 etc: See page 5 for further details. | turn a page: idly turning the pages | the opposite/facing page: the diagram on the facing page | over the page (=on the next page) | the sports pages/the fashion page etc (=part of a newspaper) | a blank page (=a page that is empty)

2 COMPUTER

a) a piece of text (=writing) or a picture on a computer screen that will fill one side of a piece of paper when it is printed

b) all the text that can be seen at one time on a computer screen

3 BOY a pageboy (1) pageboy (2)

4 MIDDLE AGES a boy who served a knight during the Middle Ages as part of his training to become a knight himself

5 STUDENT AmE a student who works as a helper to a member of the US Congress

6 page in history an important event or period of time: a significant page in our country's history

7 SERVANT old use a boy who is a servant to a person of high rank

2 verb (T)

1 to call someone's name out in a public place, especially using a loudspeaker, in order to find them: I couldn't find Jenny at the airport, so I had her paged.

2 to call someone by sending a message to their pager (=a small machine they carry that receives signals): If you need me for anything, just page me.

page through sth phrasal verb (T) AmE to look at a book, magazine etc: paging through old newspapers