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paper

  • noun
  • pa·per
  • pā'''′'''pər

A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.

Other meanings

  1. anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).

  2. An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

Example sentences

  • “Does the paper need to be double spaced?”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

  • “She writes a paper on cultural shifts.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0

  • “Where can I buy toilet paper?”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Ancient Greek "πάπυρος".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “paper” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.