n. 1 newspaper, tabloid, daily, weekly, journal, gazette, publication, periodical, newsletter, organ, Colloq rag, sheet She is feature editor of a paper in Manchester 2 Often, papers. a document(s), instrument, legal papers, form, certificate, deed, ownership papers; credential(s), identification Bring the papers to my office for signing His papers are not in order. Many people lost their papers during the war. b docket, files, dossier, record(s), archive(s) Your papers seem to have disappeared from our office 3 stationery, letterhead, writing-paper, letter-paper, notepaper; foolscap; scrap or US also scratch paper; wrapping paper; gift-wrapping, gift-wrap; wallpaper She wrote to me on the most beautiful engraved paper We buy our Christmas paper from a museum shop. 4 article, composition, essay, assignment, report, thesis, study, tract, analysis, critique, exegesis, treatise, dissertation, disquisition, manuscript, MS or ms, autograph, holograph, typescript, script, speech Adelaide will present her paper at the meeting of the Royal Academy this year
v. 5 (hang) wallpaper, line; post, distribute The entire area was papered with posters announcing the meeting