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Page vs Squire - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between page and squire

is that page is a serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education while squire is a ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.

As nouns the difference between page and squire

is that page is one of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document while squire is a shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.

As verbs the difference between page and squire

is that page is to mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript while squire is to attend as a squire.

As a proper noun Page

is {{surname|A=An|English and Scottish occupational|from=occupations}} for someone who was a servant.

page

English

(wikipedia page)

Etymology 1

Via (etyl) from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
  • * (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
    • Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
  • One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
  • A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
  • (label) The type set up for printing a page.
  • (label) A web page.
  • (label) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
    • Synonyms
    * (side of a leaf) side * account, record
    Derived terms
    (Terms derived from "page") * on the same page * page in, page out * page-turner *

    Verb

    (pag)
  • To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
  • To turn several pages of a publication.
    • The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
  • To furnish with folios.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), possibly via (etyl) (m), from , in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
  • (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  • (US) A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  • (in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
  • A boy child.
  • * 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
    • A doghter hadde they bitwixe]] hem two / Of twenty yeer, with-outen any mo, / Savinge a child that was of half-yeer age; / In [[cradle, cradel it lay and was a propre page .
  • A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  • A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  • Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania .
    • Synonyms
    * (serving boy) page boy * (boy child) boy

    Verb

    (pag)
  • To attend (someone) as a page.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To call or summon (someone).
  • To contact (someone) by means of a pager.
    • I’ll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
  • To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
    • An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?

    Anagrams

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    squire

    English

    (wikipedia squire)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
  • A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
  • A male attendant on a great personage.
  • A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
  • (UK, colloquial)

    • Verb

    (squir)
  • To attend as a squire
    • (Chaucer)
  • To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection
    • to squire a lady
    (Goldsmith)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) See square.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
  • * 1598 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene)
    • But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire , / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
  • * 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost) , V, 2, 474.
    • do not you know my lady's foot by the squire .
  • *
    • as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire , or any other toole, […].
  • * 1628 , (William Shakespeare), (w, The Winter's Tale) , IV, 4, 348.
    • twelve foot and a half by the squire .

    Anagrams

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