wallpaper
/ˈwɔːlˌpeɪpə/
wallpaper noun: decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.
Noun
wallpaper (countable and uncountable, plural wallpapers)
- Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.
- Synonyms:
- paper[Appendix:Glossary
- A roll of such paper.
- A style or design of such material.
- He is letting her select the wallpapers for the whole house.
- Anything that serves as a background or part of the surroundings.
- This was not the wallpaper television that flickered away in the background in every dealing room but was not really watched. This was finely targeted and timely broadcast of stuff dealers would want to drop everything to watch.2004, Brian Mooney, Barry Simpson, Breaking News: How the Wheels Came off at Reuters, page 114
- Her experiences are too early and too much part of the emotional wallpaper to be grasped in this way.2007, Susan Nathiel, Daughters of Madness: Growing Up and Older with a Mentally Ill Mother
- An image or tiled pattern used as the background of a computer desktop.
- He chose a Minecraft design as his computer's wallpaper.
- You can design your own wallpaper using Paintbrush. A wallpaper appears on your desktop in tiles. The number of tiles that are needed to cover the desktop depends on the size of the canvas you use to create a wallpaper.1997, Richard Dungworth, Philippa Wingate, Windows 3.1 & Windows 95 for Beginners, page 65
- Synonyms:
- desktop image
- Generic footage of a building or location that may be used in the background of a related news report.
- Scripts that include brief reference to a picture turn stock footage from 'wallpaper' to illustration.1983, Av Westin, Newswatch: How TV Decides the News, page 88
- News bulletins on television may need general rather than specific footage. This is known as wallpaper — moving pictures over which the news item is read.2002, Kathy Chater, Research for Media Production, page 75
- 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.
- Some of my wallpaper includes ORS, OPS […]1960, QST, volume 44, numbers 1-6, page 76
- So if you are a technical ham and are looking for one more piece of "wallpaper" to put up at the shack, consider […]1994, 73 Amateur Radio Today, numbers 400-411, page 155
Verb
wallpaper (third-person singular simple present wallpapers, present participle wallpapering, simple past and past participle wallpapered)
- To cover (a wall, a room, etc) with wallpaper.
- Synonyms:
- paper
wallpaper meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
wallpaper in Hindi
- decorative paper for walls
- वॉलपेपर vŏlpepar
- computing: image used to cover a desktop
- पृष्ठभूमि pŕṣṭhabhūmi
wallpaper in Tamil
- வால்பேப்பர், வால்பேபர், வால் பேப்பர்
wallpaper in Marathi
- वॉलपेपर, वॉलपेपरिंग
wallpaper in Urdu
- decorative paper for walls
- وال پیپَر vāl pepar
- computing: image used to cover a desktop
- وال پیپَر vāl pepar
More languagesFewer languages
- wallpaper in Bengali
- ওয়ালপেপার, ওয়াল পেপার
- wallpaper in Telugu
- వాల్పేపర్, వాల్ పేపర్, వాల్పేపరింగ్
- wallpaper in Malayalam
- വാൾപേപ്പർ vāḷpēppaṟ
- wallpaper in Kannada
- ವಾಲ್ಪೇಪರ್
- wallpaper in Punjabi
- ਵਾਲਪੇਪਰ
- wallpaper in Gujarati
- વોલપેપર, વોલ પેપર
- wallpaper in Odia
- ୱାଲପେପର୍, ୱାଲ୍ପେପର୍, ୱାଲପେପର
- wallpaper in Nepali
- वालपेपर, वाल पेपर
- wallpaper in Tagalog
- papel pandingding
- wallpaper in Arabic
- وَرَق حَائِط waraq ḥāʔiṭ, خَلْفِيَّة ḵalfiyya
- wallpaper in Malay
- kertas dinding
- wallpaper in Persian
- کاغذدیواری کردن kâġazdivâri kardan
- wallpaper in Thai
- วอลล์เพเปอร์ wɔɔ-pee-bpə̂ə
- wallpaper in Vietnamese
- giấy dán tường, hình nền
Examples of wallpaper in a sentence
- I'm having a major crisis trying to wallpaper the living room.
- The hotel room was ugly, and the wallpaper clashed with the carpet.
- He held a swatch of the wallpaper up to see if the colors would match the room.
Synonyms of wallpaper
- paper[Appendix:Glossary
- desktop image
- paper
- desktop pattern
- background
Forms of wallpaper
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wallpapers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wallpapers |
| present participle | wallpapering |
| past participle | wallpapered |
| past | wallpapered |
Origin of wallpaper
From wall + paper.
Words formed from wallpaper
Phrases with wallpaper
Questions about wallpaper
- What does wallpaper mean?
- Wallpaper means decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.
- What is wallpaper in Hindi?
- Wallpaper in Hindi is वॉलपेपर (vŏlpepar), पृष्ठभूमि (pŕṣṭhabhūmi). See Wallpaper meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wallpaper?
- Wallpaper can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wallpaper?
- Wallpaper is pronounced /ˈwɔːlˌpeɪpə/.
- What is the plural of wallpaper?
- The plural of wallpaper is wallpapers.
Words near wallpaper in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wallpaper (page history and authors); wallpaper (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wallpaper (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wallpaper (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wallpaper (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); വാൾപേപ്പർ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); wallpaper (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wallpaper (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wallpaper (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wallpaper (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wallpaper (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.
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