Definitions for the word "page" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
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 employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A boy child.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To attend (one) as a page.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
The type set up for printing a page.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
1 a leaf of a book, periodical, etc. B each side of this. C what is written or printed on this. 2 episode; memorable event. v. (-ging) paginate. [latin pagina]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
12. n.
1 liveried boy or man employed to run errands, attend to a door, etc. 2 boy as a personal attendant of a bride etc. v. (-ging) 1 (in hotels, airports, etc.) Summon, esp. By making an announcement. 2 summon by pager. [french]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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