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wrappers

wrappers is the plural of wrapper.

Meaning of wrapper

Noun

wrapper (plural wrappers)

  1. Something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping.
    • Messy trains are horrible, but you can sort of understand passengers leaving their sandwich wrappers and paper cups if there is nowhere to dispose of them.2023 April 5, Pip Dunn, “'196s' giving commuters a smoother ride”, in RAIL, number 980, page 55
  2. An outer garment; a loose robe or dressing gown.
    • Please to examine, at your leisure, the inner linings of the cuff of his left sleeve, and the several little packages which may be found in the somewhat capacious pockets of his embroidered morning wrapper.1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson
  3. One who, or that which, wraps.
    • He proved to be a remarkably efficient wrapper of parcels.
  4. (object-oriented programming) A construct, such as a class or module, that serves to mediate access to another.
    • We need a Perl wrapper for this C++ library.
    Synonyms:
    adapter
  5. (derogatory) A startup company that sells technology that it largely does not make.

Phrases with wrappers

Questions about wrappers

What is wrappers the plural of?
Wrappers is the plural of wrapper.

Words near wrappers in the dictionary

  1. wrappeds
  2. wrapper
  3. wrapper classes
  4. wrappered
  5. wrapperless
  6. wrappers
  7. wrappest
  8. wrappeth
  9. wrapping
  10. wrapping around one's little finger
  11. wrapping gown

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wrappers (page history and authors); wrapper (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.

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