Synonyms for paper
ˈpeɪ pərpa·per

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. papernoun

   a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

   Synonyms:
   composition, report, newspaper publisher, newspaper, theme

2. composition, paper, report, themenoun

   an essay (especially one written as an assignment)

   "he got an A on his composition"

   Synonyms:
   make-up, idea, subject, base, piece, report card, physical composition, makeup, radical, musical theme, report, study, typography, root, news report, reputation, authorship, topic, written report, newspaper publisher, piece of music, theme, newspaper, penning, melodic theme, composition, story, motif, stem, root word, constitution, write up, composing, writing, opus, account, musical composition

3. newspaper, papernoun

   a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements

   "he read his newspaper at breakfast"

   Synonyms:
   composition, report, newspaper publisher, newsprint, newspaper, theme

4. papernoun

   a medium for written communication

   "the notion of an office running without paper is absurd"

   Synonyms:
   composition, report, newspaper publisher, newspaper, theme

5. papernoun

   a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses

   "he has written many scientific papers"

   Synonyms:
   composition, report, newspaper publisher, newspaper, theme

6. newspaper, paper, newspaper publishernoun

   a business firm that publishes newspapers

   "Murdoch owns many newspapers"

   Synonyms:
   newspaper, theme, newspaper publisher, report, publisher, newsprint, composition

7. newspaper, paperverb

   the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher

   "when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper"

   Synonyms:
   composition, report, newspaper publisher, newsprint, newspaper, theme

8. paperverb

   cover with paper

   "paper the box"

   Synonyms:
   wallpaper

9. wallpaper, paperverb

   cover with wallpaper

   Synonyms:
   wallpaper

Matched Categories

1. • Article
   • Cover
   • Essay
   • Material
   • Medium
   • Press
   • Publisher

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. papernoun

   Synonyms:
   document, writing, written instrument

2. papernoun

   Synonyms:
   newspaper, journal

3. papernoun

   Synonyms:
   (Com.) notes, bank-notes, drafts, bills of exchange

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. papernoun

   Synonyms:
   document, essay, dissertation, article, journal, newspaper, periodical, gazette, courant

   Associated words:
   papyrus, parchment, papeterie, tablet, stationer, stationery, papier-mâché, portfolio

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "paper":

   document, book, workbook, papers, role, documents, paper-based, papier, journal, documentation, libro, newspaper, paperworkers, article, printed, paperwork, documento, hard-copy, hard, hardcopy, livre, print, pound, papiers, communication, study, handout

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How to use paper in a sentence?

1. Michael Eisenberg:

   You want to have your documentation in order so that when you write this back as a 'bad debt,' you have a paper trail.

2. Scott C. Holstad:

   Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield.

3. Nancy Newman:

   No one enjoyed collecting more than Tom, he jokingly called his cards his ‘paper babies,’ and spent almost every day attending to his collection in one way or another. It gave him such pleasure. The only reason he would ever sell a card was if he had acquired the same card in a higher grade.

4. Suzana Camargo:

   People have been doing different attempts to try to figure out what happened with other datasets, using different methodologies, so I see this paper as another piece of the puzzle, we do not have data in the past, and we can not go back and be there now, so this paper is trying to recreate in a different way that has been done so far what has happened in the relation to number of tropical cyclones.

5. David Meyre:

   The reason we studied this is very simple, every time I was writing a research paper and I was describing what we knew about the genetics of obesity, I didn't have a reference.