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noun
- One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
- The type set up for printing a page.
- (obsolete) A serving boy - a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education;
- a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households;
- a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- (context, in libraries) the common name given to an employee who's main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- A boy child.
- A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
- A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- Any one of several species of South American moths of the genus Urania.
- (figurative) A record; a writing.
- the page of history
verb (tearoom)
(pag, ing)
- (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript
- (transitive) To furnish with folios.
- (context, transitive, US, obsolete, _, in UK) To call or summon (someone).
- (transitive) To contact (someone) by means of a pager.
Etymology: Via Old French from Latin paginaLatin, pÄgina. Also from Italian paggio, probably from Greek (polytonic, ) (boy), from (polytonic, á) (child). Used In English from 13th Century onwards.
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