page
one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,874 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 9,582 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
- English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962) also: Sir Frederick Handley Page
- United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922) also: Thomas Nelson Page
- a boy who is employed to run errands also: pageboy
- a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
- in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood also: varlet
verb
- contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
- work as a page He is paging in Congress this summer
page in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Two globe-shaped china dishes were brought in by a page.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 2
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She could invent stories by the yard, but she couldn’t write a page of English.
Greville Fane · Henry James · Chapter 1
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You are lewd because that page has a lance which I prefer to think is not a lance.
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice · James Branch Cabell · Chapter 1
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Complete page images are named in the form "pageN.png", using the number of each "Crankism" as the page number.
Crankisms · Lisle de Vaux Matthewman · Chapter 1
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Her followers were quartered in the chambers opening upon the neighboring corridor, and her favorite page slept in an adjoining closet.
Tales of a Traveller · Washington Irving · Chapter 1