papers

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪpɚz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪpəz/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

papers

1. plural of paper.

Noun

papers pl (plural only)

1. Official documents or identification, as a passport.

   Hyponym: working papers

   He lost his papers while travelling and had a hard time getting home.

   • 2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 1, page 62:

     Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

   • 1856, “Treaty signed April 18, 1855; ratified April 5, 1856”, in Treaty of friendship and commerce between Great Britain and Siam, Bangkok: J. H. Chandler, page 7:

     The arrival of the British Consul at Bangkok shall not take place before the ratification of this Treaty, nor until ten vessels owned by British subjects, sailing under British colours and with British papers, shall have entered the port of Bangkok for purposes of trade, subsequent to the signing of this Treaty.

2. A collection of documents, unpublished writing or correspondence in an archive or library collection.
3. (Australia) cigarette papers
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 76:

     "All right, if you happen to be over that way, just get me some fags. No, wait a shake, get me a tin of cigarette tobacco and some papers."

Translations

official documents or identification

• Catalan: papers (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 證件／证件 (zh) (zhèngjiàn)

• Finnish: paperit (fi) pl
• Polish: papiery nvir
• Spanish: papeles (es) m pl

collection of documents

• Finnish: paperit (fi) pl
• Polish: papiery nvir

Verb

papers

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of paper

Anagrams

• sapper, Rappes, Prespa

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e(ɾ)s

Noun

papers

1. plural of paper

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeipeɾs/ [ˈpei̯.peɾs]
• Rhymes: -eipeɾs

Noun

papers m pl

1. plural of paper