page

Etymology 1

Via Middle French from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.

noun

1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
   The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read. 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses]”, in American Scientist
2. One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
3. (figurative) Any record or writing; a collective memory.
   the page of history
4. (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
5. (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
   To view man pages for a command: Type man followed by the name of the command (for example, man ls), and press Return. […] To view the next page: Press Spacebar. The manual advances one page (Figure 9). 2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 44
6. (Internet) A web page.
7. (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

verb

1. (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
2. (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
   The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
3. (transitive) To furnish with folios.

Etymology 2

From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.

noun

1. (obsolete) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
2. (Britain) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
3. (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
4. (in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
5. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
6. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
7. (telecommunications, dated) A message sent to someone's pager.
   Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. […] If you were a lawyer or a business executive, maybe you could afford to ignore your pages for a while, but when you were a County Sheriff—and one who was elected rather than appointed—there wasn't much question about priorities. 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things, page 355
   Woman, why don't you be answering any of my pages? 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Murray (Donald Faison)
8. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

verb

1. (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
2. (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
3. (transitive, telecommunications, dated) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
   I'll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
   It's not even eight thirty and Murray is paging me. 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Dionne (Stacey Dash)
4. (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
   An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?