Meaning of page In English

• 0 a side of one of the pieces of paper in a book, newspaper, or magazine, usually with a number printed on it:

  • For details on how to enter the competition, see page 134.

  • The article appeared on the front page of the New York Times.

  • Several pages have been torn out of this book.

• 1 one part of a website

• 2 in the past, a boy who worked as a servant for a knight and who was learning to become a knight:

  • Below in the courtyard the knights and men-at-arms and pages were already receiving the Queen’s message.

  • He who would become a knight must first learn the rudiments as a page.

  • We know de Vere became "poor" with only 4 pages or attendants, after having run through his family wealth.

  • The children of the couple became the bridesmaids and pages.

  • The pages, flower girls, and bridesmaids were waiting for the bride and her father.

  • He is a hotel page.

  • He worked as a page at the old Vernon Branch Library.

  • As young men, her three much older brothers were Senate pages who met Presidents John Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

• 3 to call a person using a loudspeaker (= an electric device for making sounds louder) in a public place:

  • He was paged at the airport and told to return home immediately.

  • Have you tried to page him?

• 4 one side of a sheet of paper in a book, newspaper, magazine, etc.:

  • What page are the baseball standings on?

  • It’s a terrific novel, but it’s over 800 pages long.

  • The article is continued on page 43 (= a side of a sheet of paper numbered 43).

• 5 a group of text and images shown together on a computer screen:

  • Do you have a home page?

  • It took her only 20 minutes to customize a Web page.

• 6 to communicate with someone by having that person’s name announced publicly or by sending a signal to an electronic device the person is carrying:

  • Doctors are paged by their answering services at all hours.

• 7 a side of one of the pieces of paper in a book, newspaper, or magazine, usually with a number printed on it:

  • Open your book and look at page nine.

  • Even the major newspapers let important news slip off the front page.

• 8 one of the sheets of paper in a book, newspaper, or magazine:

  • A page had been ripped out of the magazine.

  • in the pages of sth There were several interesting articles to be found in the pages of the Wall Street Journal today.

  • the financial/sports/news pages

  • the business/culture/advertising pages

• 9 one part of a website:

  • Your page on the social networking site enables you to share your business profile.

  • We added a jobs page to the website.

• 10 the text of an electronic document that you can see on a computer screen:

  • You have to scroll down the page to find the information you're looking for.

• 11 a message received on a pager (= a small piece of electronic equipment that moves or makes a noise to tell you to phone someone):

  • send a page to sb I asked the nurse to send a page to the doctor.

• 12 to have the same ideas as someone else:

  • Everyone in the office has to be on the same page about what our top priorities are.

• 13 to call a person using a loudspeaker in a public place:

  • He was paged at the airport and told to return home immediately.

• 14 to send a message to someone's pager :

  • As soon as you're finished with the download, page me.