Meaning

4 senses
  1. A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.

    Piepser, Taschenpiepser, Rufgerät

    пе́йджерpɛ́jdžer

    пе́йджерpéjdžer

  2. A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.

  3. (in compounds)Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.

  4. One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.

More definitions
  • an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Is this your pager?

    Це ваш пейджер?

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  2. Yanni checked his pager.

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  3. This was my pager.

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  4. Yanni turned his pager off.

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  5. Sami bought Layla a pager.

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Translations

9 languages
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Origin

From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).

From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).

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Forms

plural: pagers
Singularpager
Pluralpagers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged:beeper

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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