paper

1. 1.

   cover with paper

   “paper the box”

   Broadercover
2. 2.

   cover with wallpaper

   Synonymswallpaper

   Broadercover

Other forms of paper

plural

papers·

past tense

paperred·

present participle

paperring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about paper

What does paper mean?

paper means "a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in paper?

paper has 2 syllables: pa-per. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪpɚ/.

What is another word for paper?

Close synonyms include composition, report, theme, newspaper, newspaper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paper a common word?

paper is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with paper?

4 words rhyme with paper. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.