Meaning

8 senses
  1. (uncountable)Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.

    Tapete, Hintergrundbild, Wallpaper

    обо́иobói, обо́иobói

    шпале́риšpaléry, шпале́риšpaléry

    a decorative paper for the walls of rooms

  2. (countable)A roll of such paper.

  3. (countable)A style or design of such material.

    He is letting her select the wallpapers for the whole house.

  4. (attributive, figuratively, sometimes, uncountable)Anything that serves as a background or part of the surroundings.

  5. (countable, uncountable)An image or tiled pattern used as the background of a computer desktop.

    He chose a Minecraft design as his computer's wallpaper.

  6. (countable, slang, uncountable)Generic footage of a building or location that may be used in the background of a related news report.

  7. (countable, informal, uncountable)Gaudy mass-produced stamps, typically of little or no value and only produced for sale to collectors.

  8. (countable, uncountable)A radio operator's collection of awards and QSL cards.

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Tom used a whole roll of wallpaper.

    ruТом использовал целый рулон обоев. — sharptoothed

  2. Which wallpaper did you choose?

  3. Do you like this wallpaper?

  4. The walls were covered with wallpaper.

    ruСтены были обклеены обоями. — Wezel

    deDie Wände waren tapeziert. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Why are you using that wallpaper?

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
decorative paper for walls:
Русский
By meaning 1
decorative paper for walls:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
decorative paper for walls:
computing: image used to cover a desktop:

Origin

From wall + paper.

From wall + paper.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: wallpapers
Singularwallpaper
Pluralwallpapers

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
backgroundA2paper[Appendix:Glossarydesktop pattern
computing: background image:desktop image

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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