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   paper

   /ˈpeɪpə/

   noun

   • 1. material manufactured in thin sheets from the pulp of wood or other fibrous substances, used for writing, drawing, or printing on, or as wrapping material: "a sheet of paper" Similar writing papernotepaperwrapperwrapping
   • ▪ wallpaper: "the walls were damp—paper hung away in long strips" Similar wallpaperwallcoveringwoodchiptrademark:AnaglyptaLincrusta
   • ▪ short for cigarette paper
   • 2. a sheet of paper with something written or printed on it: "he riffled through the papers on his desk"
   • ▪ a newspaper: "the story made the front page of the local paper" Similar newspaperinformal:printrag
   • ▪ personal documents: "the personal papers of major political figures" Similar documentscertificatesformslettersfilesdeedsrecordsdossiersdiariesarchiveslegal paperspaperworkdocumentationinformal:treewarerare:munimentsinstrumentsassignments
   • ▪ documents attesting identity; credentials: "two men stopped us and asked us for our papers" Similar identification papersidentification documentsidentity cardIDcredentialsbona fides
   • ▪ a government report or policy document: "a recently leaked cabinet paper" Similar documentscertificatesformslettersfilesdeedsrecordsdossiersdiariesarchiveslegal paperspaperworkdocumentationinformal:treewarerare:munimentsinstrumentsassignments
   • ▪ denoting something that is officially documented but has no real existence: "a paper profit"
   • 3. a set of examination questions to be answered at one session: British "we had to sit a three-hour paper" Similar examexaminationtest
   • ▪ the written answers to examination questions: "you need to test your students, mark their papers, and place them in the right class"
   • 4. an essay or dissertation, especially one read at an academic lecture or seminar or published in an academic journal: "he published a highly original paper on pattern formation" Similar essayarticlecompositionmonographthesisworkdissertationtreatisestudyreportanalysistractcritiqueexegesisreviewdisquisitiondiscoursepiece of writingtheme
   • 5. free passes of admission to a theatre or other entertainment. theatrical slang

   verb

   • 1. apply wallpaper to (a wall or room): "the walls were papered in a Regency stripe"
   • ▪ cover a hole or blemish with wallpaper: "interior panels can be of fairly basic wood that will be papered over"
   • ▪ disguise an awkward problem instead of resolving it: "the unions tried to paper over their differences"
   • 2. fill (a theatre) by giving out free tickets: theatrical slang "surely the theatre could at least have papered the house if the box office was looking so poor"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French papir, from Latin papyrus ‘paper-reed’ (see papyrus). The verb dates from the late 16th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. paperer noun

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