English▸ noun one side of a sheet of paper in a collection of sheets bound together, especially as a book, magazine, or newspaper:
a book of not less than 40 pages
he was turning the pages of his Sunday newspaper.
▪ the material written or printed on a page:
she silently read several pages.
▪ [with modifier] a page of a newspaper or magazine set aside for a particular topic:
the editorial page.
▪ Printing the type set for the printing of a page.
▪ Computing a section of stored data, especially that which can be displayed on a screen at one time.
▪ a significant episode or period considered as a part of a longer history:
the inconsistency of this transaction has no parallel on any page of our political history.
▸ verb
1 [no object] (page through) leaf through (a book, magazine, or newspaper):
she was paging through an immense pile of Sunday newspapers.
▪ Computing move through and display (text) one page at a time:
a text file reader enables you to page through the authors text file using indexes.
– ORIGIN late 16th century : from French, from Latin pagina, from pangere ‘fasten’.