Other forms: pages, paging, paged
A page is one side of one sheet in a book. Turn the page, page forty, the first page. A sheet of paper has two pages, front and back, and that distinction matters when somebody says a ten-page document.
On the web a page is one document at one address, which is why web page and home page work exactly like the paper kind. As a verb, to page somebody is to call them over a public address system or a pager — paging Dr Ahmed. And a page is also a boy attendant at a wedding or in a medieval household, which is a separate word entirely. Note on the same page, meaning in agreement, which is now everywhere in meetings.
1nounpageOne side of a sheet in a book or magazine.
“The answer is on page ninety.”
2noundocumentOne document on a website.
“The page has not been updated since last year.”
3verbpublicTo call somebody over a public address system.
“They paged him three times and he never came.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
page is a side of a sheet.
Latin pagina came from a root meaning to fasten — the same root as page in the sense of a fixed column, and as compact. A page was a fastened sheet, and behind that may be the idea of vine rows staked in a field, laid out in the same regular columns.
Latin
pāgina
Middle French
page
English, today
page
Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina. Middle French page, from Latin pagina, from Proto-Indo-European peh₂ǵ-. a doublet of pagina.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA