page
/peɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.12 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
noun
A web page.
noun
A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
noun
Clipping of memory page.
Example Sentences
- "The book which he was reading had 213 pages."
- "The graph is on page 30, but I opened the textbook at page 32."
- "Such was the book from whose pages she sang."
- "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."
- "a page from history"
- "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 […]."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb
- British usage
- Canadian usage
- American usage
- Dated
- Obsolete
- Countable
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.