wallpaper
noun
Meaning
- Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.
- A roll of such paper.
- A style or design of such material.
- Anything that serves as a background or part of the surroundings.
- An image or tiled pattern used as the background of a computer desktop.
- Generic footage of a building or location that may be used in the background of a related news report.
- Gaudy mass-produced stamps, typically of little or no value and only produced for sale to collectors.
- A radio operator's collection of awards and QSL cards.
- To cover (a wall, a room, etc) with wallpaper.
Etymology / origin
From wall + paper.
Related words
Descendant words
- paper fos(Cornish) (clq)
- വാൾപേപ്പർ(Malayalam) (bor)
- papel de parede(Portuguese) (cal)
- วอลล์เพเปอร์(Thai) (bor)
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