paper – English noun declension

English noun forms of paper

Noun: paper
Singularpaper
Pluralpapers

Sample Sentences

  • Draw on the paper! Not on the walls!
  • The paper mill on the south side of town makes various grades of paper and employs hundreds of people.
  • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Read all about it in this morning's paper!
  • In those days, the Reporter Dispatch was the paper of record around here, and everyone who was anyone took the paper [was a subscriber].
  • "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.[…]." [1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:]
  • “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.” [1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:]
  • However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper! [2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:]
  • The paperhangers had just finished hanging the paper in the dining room when the interior decorator walked in and exclaimed that it was the wrong color.
  • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls. [1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:]
  • In those days, you asked the butcher for a block of cheese, and he wrapped it up in paper for you.
  • The kids could hardly wait to tear the paper off their Christmas gifts.
  • Near-synonym: report
  • I can't go out tonight. I have a paper due tomorrow, and I need to finish it tonight.
  • Their team published a paper in the leading journal of their field, and its widespread impact elevated the reputation of their university department.
  • This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^([sic]) years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators. [2014 January 26, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:]
  • Paper after paper spells out how vulnerable we are to internet-induced brain rot. “High levels of internet usage and heavy media multitasking are associated with decreased grey matter in prefrontal regions,” finds one. [2024 December 9, Siân Boyle, “Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2026:]
  • Why might not a Government annuity, the Principal of which was originally invested in Paper since the Cash suspension in 1797, be constituted the guarantee of Paper Money, emendating from that investiture and suspension, and the Parliament authority transferred to its security, as it has been to its creation, in preference to all others, while Paper continues our general Medium. [1812, William Major, Theory of Money and Exchanges, page XV:]
  • That great, rich institution,[…]has three millions and a half specie in its vaults, and nearly six millions invested in paper, loans, discounts, pledges—suddenly turned up the other day[…]. [1859, The Bankers' Magazine, and Statistical Register, volume 14, page 244:]
  • a paper in ology
  • She's taking four papers this semester: two in psychology and two in sociology.
  • A candidate who has taken or is taking a paper for any particular unit will not (except in the case of a change of syllabus) be permitted to take the same paper, or a more elementary paper, for any other unit. [1969, University of Auckland, Calendar:]
  • She continued her university studies by taking a paper in psychology, which was taught principally by John Money, a strikingly handsome young junior lecturer. [2002, Michael King, An Inward Sun: The World of Janet Frame, Penguin Books (New Zealand):]
  • In 1938 he passed the final paper (in psychology) needed to complete his BA degree. [2017 September 29, Terry Sturm, Simply by Sailing in a New Direction: Allen Curnow: A Biography, Auckland University Press, →ISBN:]
  • a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
  • cantharides paper

Etymology

From Middle English paper, from Anglo-Norman paper, from Old Catalan paper, borrowed from Latin papȳrus (and given the Catalan suffix -er), from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros). See: Middle English Nouns 'paper', Latin Nouns 'papȳrus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πάπυρος'.

Verbs referencing "paper"

Zulu Nouns iphepha, English Nouns paper driver, German Nouns Paper.