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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

page
     n 1: especially one side of a leaf
     2: English industrialist who pioneered in the design and
        manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962) [syn: Page, Sri
        Frederick Handley Page]
     3: United States diplomat and writer about the Old South
        (1853-1922) [syn: Page, Thomas Nelson Page]
     4: a boy who is employed to run errands [syn: pageboy]
     5: a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies
        such as legislative functions and weddings
     6: in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as
        the first stage in training for knighthood [syn: varlet]
     v 1: call out somebody's name over a P.A. system
     2: work as a page; "He is paging in Congress this summer"
     3: number the pages of a book or manuscript [syn: foliate, paginate]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Page \Page\ (p[=a]j), n. [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr.
   Gr. paidi`on, dim. of pai^s, paido`s, a boy, servant; perh.
   akin to L. puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.]
   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
      employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
Page \Page\, n. [F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere,
   pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being
   fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination.]
   1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.

            Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
                                                  --Longfellow.

   2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.

   3. (Print.) The type set up for printing a page.
Page \Page\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paged; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Paging.]
   To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to
   furnish with folios.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

PAGE

   A typesetting language.

   ["Computer Composition Using PAGE-1", J.L.  Pierson, Wiley
   1972].
page

   1. <operating system> paging.

   2.  web page.

   (1997-04-10)

Source: U.S. Gazetteer (1990) 

Page, AZ (city, FIPS 51810)
  Location: 36.90425 N, 111.45782 W
  Population (1990): 6598 (2307 housing units)
  Area: 43.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Page, ND (city, FIPS 60500)
  Location: 47.15800 N, 97.57060 W
  Population (1990): 266 (144 housing units)
  Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 58064
Page, NE (village, FIPS 38085)
  Location: 42.39904 N, 98.41741 W
  Population (1990): 191 (100 housing units)
  Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 68766