Word.ws English Dictionary

plate paper

plate paper noun: a heavy spongy paper, for printing from engraved plates.

Noun

plate paper (countable and uncountable, plural plate papers)

  1. A heavy spongy paper, for printing from engraved plates.
    • The most artistic method of mounting on card or paper is to mount on plain white plate paper, with the plate - mark sunk in , as in the case of engravings1802, William Henry Burbank, Photographic Printing Methods

Forms of plate paper

pluralplate papers

Questions about plate paper

What does plate paper mean?
Plate paper means a heavy spongy paper, for printing from engraved plates.
What part of speech is plate paper?
Plate paper is a noun.
What is the plural of plate paper?
The plural of plate paper is plate papers.

Words near plate paper in the dictionary

  1. plate money
  2. plate moneys
  3. plate number coil
  4. plate number coils
  5. plate out
  6. plate paper
  7. plate papers
  8. plate powder
  9. plate powders
  10. plate press
  11. plate presses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: plate paper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “plate paper.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plate_paper. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.