Page

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Page, n. [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. paidi`on, dim. of pai^s, paido`s, a boy, servant; perh. akin to L. puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.].

•  A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United States Congress  [1913 Webster]

  "He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one."  [1913 Webster]
•  A boy child.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.  [1913 Webster]
•  A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.  [1913 Webster]

Page, v. t. 

•  To attend (one) as a page.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc.  [PJC]
•  To call a person on a pager.  [PJC]

Page, n. [F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination.].

•  One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.  [1913 Webster]

  "Such was the book from whose pages she sang."  [1913 Webster]
•  A record; a writing; as, the page of history.  [1913 Webster]
•  The type set up for printing a page.  [1913 Webster]

Page, v. t. 

 To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Page, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a leaf of a book, periodical, etc. b each side of this. c what is written or printed on this.
2 a an episode that might fill a page in written history etc.; a record. b a memorable event.
--v.tr. paginate.

Page, n. & v.
--n.
1 a boy or man, usu. in livery, employed to run errands, attend to a door, etc.
2 a boy employed as a personal attendant of a person of rank, a bride, etc.
3 hist. a boy in training for knighthood and attached to a knight's service.
--v.tr.
1 (in hotels, airports, etc.) summon by making an announcement or by sending a messenger.
2 summon by means of a pager.

Idiom

page-boy
1 = PAGE(2) n. 2.
2 a woman's hairstyle with the hair reaching to the shoulder and rolled under at the ends.

Etymology

ME f. OF, perh. f. It. paggio f. Gk paidion, dimin. of pais paidos boy

THESAURUS

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Ganymede, Hebe, acknowledgments, age, airline hostess, airline stewardess, announce, article, attendant, back, back matter, bastard title, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, bibliography, bid come, book, bootblack, boots, cabin boy, caddie, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call off, call out, call over, call the roll, call together, call up, cardboard, catch line, catchword, census, chapter, chore boy, cite, clause, colophon, conjure, conjure up, contents, contents page, convene, convoke, copyboy, copyright page, count, cupbearer, dedication, demand, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, enumerate, episode, epoch, era, errand boy, errand girl, errata, evoke, fascicle, flyleaf, foliate, folio, footboy, fore edge, foreword, front matter, gathering, gofer, half-title page, head, hostess, imprint, indent, index, inscription, introduction, invoke, leaf, makeup, measure, messenger, muster, muster up, number, numerate, office boy, office girl, order up, orderly, paginate, paper, paragraph, passage, period, phase, phrase, point, poll, preconize, preface, preliminaries, quantify, quantize, quire, ream, recall, recto, requisition, reverso, run over, running title, section, send after, send for, sentence, servant, serve, sheet, side, signature, squire, stage, stationery, steward, stewardess, subpoena, subtitle, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, table of contents, tail, tally, tell, tender, text, time, title, title page, trainbearer, trim size, type page, usher, verse, verso, yeoman

ROGET THESAURUS

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Printing

N printing, block printing, type-printing, plate printing, (engraving), the press, composition, print, letterpress, text, context, note, page, column, typography, stereotype, electrotype, aprotype, type, black letter, font, fount, pi, pie, capitals, brevier, bourgeois, pica boldface, capitals, caps, catchword, composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick, italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype, lower case, upper case, make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work, reglet, roman, running head, running title, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay, folio, copy, impression, pull, proof, revise, author's proof, galley proof, press proof, press revise, printer, compositor, reader, printer's devil copyholder, printed, in type, typographical, solid in galleys.

Book

N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Numeration

VB number, count, tally, tell, call over, run over, take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate, sum, sum up, cast up, tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots, algebraize, check, prove, demonstrate, balance, audit, overhaul, take stock, affix numbers to, page, amount to, add up to, come to.

Servant

N servant, subject, liegeman, servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache, official, retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court, attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy, train bearer, cup bearer, waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre, equerry, groom, jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd, barkeeper, bartender, bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper, khansamah, khansaman, khitmutgar, yardman, bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers, secretary, under secretary, assistant secretary, clerk, subsidiary, agent, subaltern, underling, understrapper, man, maid, maidservant, handmaid, confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette, amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah, nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid, femme de chambre, femme fille, camarista, chef de cuisine, cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella, potwalloper, maid of all work, servant of all work, laundress, bedmaker, journeyman, charwoman, bearer, chokra, gyp (Cambridge), hamal, scout (Oxford), serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot, bondsman, bondswoman, bondslave, ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe, villian, villein, beadsman, bedesman, sizar, pensioner, pensionary, client, dependant, dependent, hanger on, satellite, parasite, led captain, protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature, badge of slavery, bonds, in the train of, in one's pay, in one's employ, at one's call, in bonds.