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Definition of Page
Pronunciation: pājd | n. | 1. | 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 | | 2. | A boy child. | | 3. | A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground. | | 4. | (Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack. | | 5. | (Zool.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania. | | v. t. | 1. | To attend (one) as a page. | | 2. | To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc. | | 3. | To call a person on a pager. | | n. | 1. | | | 1. | One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. | | 2. | A record; a writing; as, the page of history. | | 3. | (Print.) The type set up for printing a page. | | v. t. | 1. | To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios. |
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