English▸ noun a young person employed in a hotel or other establishment to run errands, open doors, etc.
▪ a young boy attending a bride at a wedding.
▪ historical a boy in training for knighthood, ranking next below a squire in the personal service of a knight.
▪ historical a man or boy employed as the personal attendant of a person of rank.
▸ verb [with object] summon (someone) over a public address system, so as to pass on a message:
no need to interrupt the background music just to page the concierge.
▪ contact (someone) by means of a pager:
he would have to call her and tell her to stop paging him
(as noun paging) many systems have paging as a standard feature.
– ORIGIN 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 century) was in the sense ‘follow as or like a page’; its current sense dates from the early 20th century.