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noun
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).  Synonym: Sir Frederick Handley Page.
3.
United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922).  Synonym: Thomas Nelson Page.
4.
A boy who is employed to run errands.  Synonym: pageboy.
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.  Synonym: varlet.
verb
(past & past part. paged; pres. part. paging)
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.  Synonyms: foliate, paginate.



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"Page" Quotes from Famous Books



... Beardsley would denounce him among the planters as unfriendly to the cause of the South, and that would be a bad thing for him to do. Marcy read the whole scheme as easily as he could have read a printed page, and if it had not been for his mother, he would have refused, point-blank, any offer that the owner of the privateer could have made him. But he would do anything rather than add ...
— True To His Colors • Harry Castlemon
... had been saved, through the courage of a little boy who did his duty, and from that day to this there has never been a child in Holland who has not heard the stirring story of Peter, whose pluck was worthy of a sluicer's son, and whose name will never be forgotten, or effaced from the page of ...
— Ten Boys from History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
... took up a little book from my wife's bureau, and sat down to look over it while waiting for the breakfast bell. It was a book of aphorisms, and I opened at once to a page where a leaf was turned down. A slight dot with a pencil directed my eyes to a particular ...
— Home Scenes, and Home Influence - A Series of Tales and Sketches • T. S. Arthur
... quoted on a previous page, says: "No gentleman in those days was seen smoking even a 'weed' in the streets." The nearest approach to this seems to have been smoking on club steps. Thackeray, in the seventeenth chapter of the "Book of Snobs," speaks of dandies smoking their cigars upon the steps of "White's," most fashionable ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson
... from being immortal, is really limited to his own generation:—so long as his friends or his disciples are alive, so long as his books continue to be read, so long as his political or military successes fill a page in the history of his country. The praises which are bestowed upon him at his death hardly last longer than the flowers which are strewed upon his coffin or the 'immortelles' which are laid upon his tomb. ...
— Phaedo - The Last Hours Of Socrates • Plato


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