Usually means: Thin material for writing, printing.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. paper: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. paper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paper: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paper: Vocabulary.com
  6. Paper, paper, paper: Wordnik
  7. paper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. paper: Wiktionary
  9. paper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. paper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. paper: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. paper: Dictionary.com
  13. paper: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. paper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. PAPER, Paper (Krayzie Bone song), Paper (Queen Latifah song), Paper (Svala song), Paper (album), Paper (disambiguation), Paper (film), Paper (magazine), Paper, The Paper (TV series), The Paper (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Paper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. paper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. paper: Rhymezone
  19. paper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. paper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Paper: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. paper: Free Dictionary
  23. paper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. paper: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. paper: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. paper: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. paper: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Paper: Glossary of Binary Graphics
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. paper: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. paper: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Derivatives (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. PAPER: Accounting Glossary
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Paper: bizterms.net
  9. paper: Legal dictionary
  10. paper: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  12. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. paper: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PAPER: Acronym Finder
  3. paper: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paper: Easton Bible
  2. Paper: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. paper, paper, paper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Paper: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. the paper: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. paper: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Paper Making (No longer online)
  5. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See papered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
noun:  A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
noun:  (uncountable) Wallpaper.
noun:  (uncountable) Wrapping paper.
noun:  (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
noun:  A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
noun:  A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
noun:  A scholastic essay.
noun:  (British, Hong Kong) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
noun:  (slang) Money.
noun:  (finance, uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie.
noun:  (New Zealand) A university course.
noun:  A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
noun:  A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
noun:  A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
noun:  (dated) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
noun:  (dated, by extension) The people admitted by free passes.
adjective:  Made of paper.
adjective:  Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
adjective:  Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
adjective:  Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.
verb:  (transitive) To apply paper to.
verb:  (transitive) To document; to memorialize.
verb:  (transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
verb:  (transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
verb:  (transitive) To sandpaper.
verb:  (transitive) To enfold in paper.
verb:  To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
verb:  (Northeastern US) To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.

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