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PAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Page mean?
• PAGE (noun)
The noun PAGE has 6 senses:
1. one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
2. English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
3. United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922)
4. a boy who is employed to run errands
5. a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
6. in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
Familiarity information: PAGE used as a noun is common.
• PAGE (verb)
The verb PAGE has 3 senses:
1. contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
2. work as a page
3. number the pages of a book or manuscript
Familiarity information: PAGE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("page" is a kind of...):
folio; leaf (a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book))
Meronyms (parts of "page"):
folio; page number; pagination; paging (the system of numbering pages)
dog-ear (a corner of a page turned down to mark your place)
margin (the blank space that surrounds the text on a page)
Meronyms (substance of "page"):
paper (a medium for written communication)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "page"):
full page (something that covers an entire page)
half page (something that covers (the top or bottom) half of a page)
recto (right-hand page)
verso (left-hand page)
title page (a page of a book displaying the title and author and publisher)
bastard title; half title (a first page of some books displaying only the title of the book)
sports page (any page in the sports section of a newspaper)
facing pages; spread; spread head; spreadhead (two facing pages of a book or other publication)
foldout; gatefold (an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine)
Derivation:
page; paginate (number the pages of a book or manuscript)
Sense 2
Meaning:
English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Page; Sir Frederick Handley Page
Instance hypernyms:
industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Page; Thomas Nelson Page
Instance hypernyms:
diplomat; diplomatist (an official engaged in international negotiations)
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Sense 4
Meaning:
A boy who is employed to run errands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
page; pageboy
Hypernyms ("page" is a kind of...):
errand boy; messenger boy (a boy who earns money by running errands)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("page" is a kind of...):
attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)
Derivation:
page (work as a page)
Sense 6
Meaning:
In medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
page; varlet
Hypernyms ("page" is a kind of...):
attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it pages Past simple: paged
Past participle: paged
-ing form: paging
Sense 1
Meaning:
Contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "page" is one way to...):
summon (ask to come)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
pager (an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged)
paging (calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Work as a page
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
He is paging in Congress this summer
Hypernyms (to "page" is one way to...):
work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
page (a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Number the pages of a book or manuscript
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "page" is one way to...):
number (give numbers to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
page (one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains)
paging (the system of numbering pages)
Context examples
He opened it and began turning over the pages rapidly.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
There followed several pages which were filled with small sketches of Indians and their ways.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then things went smoothly, for Don Pedro defied the world in a speech of two pages without a single break.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
As for any further particulars relating to the author, the reader will receive satisfaction from the first pages of the book.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The first was a page so heavenly sweet—so deadly sad—that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Holmes turned to the page indicated.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The house kept itself, and we kept a page.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
From my note-book I tore out a page, and from the ammunition box took a shot-gun shell.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He turned it over to expose the central page.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The inspector hurried away on the instant to make inquiries about the page, while Holmes and I returned to Baker Street for breakfast.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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