Meaning

3 senses
  1. (idiomatic)A highly interesting or suspenseful written work that one is compelled to read very rapidly.

    Her debut novel is such a page-turner that it's one of those books that you can't put down.

    Pageturner

  2. A person who is responsible for turning the pages of another musician’s (especially a pianist or organist’s) sheet music during a performance.

    She's a famous soloist today, but she did her time as a page-turner, just as many others have done.

    Notenwender, Notenumblätterer, Umblätterer

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see page, turner.

Translations

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By meaning 2
suspenseful written work:
person who turns another musician's pages:

Origin

From page + turner.

From page + turner.

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Forms

plural: page-turners

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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