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Synonyms of paper in English:

paper


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noun

1‘a sheet of paper’

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writing paper, notepaper

2‘the story made the front page of the local paper’

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newspaper

informal print, rag

3‘the paper was peeling off the walls’

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wallpaper, wallcovering

British woodchip

trademark Anaglypta, Lincrusta

4‘toffee papers’

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wrapper, wrapping

5‘we had to sit a three-hour paper’

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exam, examination, test

6‘he published a paper which proved to be a landmark in the evolution of macroeconomic ideas’

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essay, article, composition, monograph, thesis, work, dissertation, treatise, study, report, analysis, tract, critique, exegesis, review, disquisition, discourse, piece of writing

North American theme

7papers‘the personal papers of major political figures’

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documents, certificates, forms, letters, files, deeds, records, dossiers, diaries, archives, legal papers, paperwork, documentation

informal treeware

rare muniments, instruments, assignments

8papers‘two men stopped us and asked us for our papers’

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identification papers, identification documents, identity card, ID, credentials, bona fides


verb

1‘we papered the walls and put up curtains to match’

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wallpaper, hang wallpaper on, line

decorate


Phrases

    on paper

      1‘he's putting a few thoughts down on paper’

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      in writing, written down, in black and white, in print, on record

      recorded, documented, printed

      2‘the combatants were, on paper at least, evenly matched’

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      in theory, theoretically, hypothetically, in the abstract, supposedly

    paper over something

      ‘the unions tried to paper over their differences’

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      cover up, hide, conceal, disguise, camouflage, gloss over, whitewash, varnish over, draw a veil over