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Definition of page verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

page

verb
 
/peɪdʒ/
 
/peɪdʒ/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they page
 
/peɪdʒ/
 
/peɪdʒ/
he / she / it pages
 
/ˈpeɪdʒɪz/
 
/ˈpeɪdʒɪz/
past simple paged
 
/peɪdʒd/
 
/peɪdʒd/
past participle paged
 
/peɪdʒd/
 
/peɪdʒd/
-ing form paging
 
/ˈpeɪdʒɪŋ/
 
/ˈpeɪdʒɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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  1. page somebody to call somebody’s name over a public address system in order to find them and give them a message
    • Why don't you have him paged at the airport?
  2. page somebody to contact somebody by sending a message to their pager
    • Page Dr Green immediately.
    Topics Phones, email and the internetc2
  3. Word Originverb Middle English (in the sense ‘youth, uncouth male’): from Old French, perhaps from Italian paggio, from Greek paidion, diminutive of pais, paid- ‘boy’. Early use of the verb (mid 16th cent.) was in the sense ‘follow as or like a page’; its current sense dates from the early 20th cent.
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