wallpaper

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Etymology

From wall + paper

Noun

wallpaper (countable and uncountable; plural wallpapers)

1. (uncountable) Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.
2. (countable) A style or design of such material or image.

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

3. (computing, Microsoft Windows) An image or tiled pattern used as a background to personalize a computer desktop.

Synonyms

• (computing: background image): desktop image (Mac OS, untiled), desktop pattern (Mac OS, tiled)

Derived terms

• ingrain wallpaper
• woodchip wallpaper

Translations

decorative paper for walls

Bosnian: tapeta (bs) f. Breton: paper-moger m. Catalan: paper m., paper pintat, paper d'empaperar Chinese: Mandarin: trad. 壁紙, simpl. 壁纸 (bìzhǐ) Czech: tapeta (cs) f. Danish: tapet (da) n. Dutch: behang n., behangpapier n., behangselpapier n. Estonian: tapeet Finnish: tapetti (fi) French: papier peint (fr) m. German: Tapete (de) f. Greek: ταπετσαρία (el) f. (tapetsaría) Hebrew: טפט (ta'pet) m., טפיטי נייר (tapiti nyar), נְייָר־קִיר (nyar-kir) Hungarian: tapéta (hu) Italian: carta da parati (it) f. Japanese: 壁紙 (ja) (kabegami)

Macedonian: тапет (mk) (tapét) m. Malay: kertas dinding (ms) Persian: کاغذدیواری (fa) (kâqazdivâri) Polish: tapeta (pl) f. Portuguese: papel (pt) de parede (pt) m. Romanian: tapet (ro) n. Russian: обои (ru) (obói) m. pl. Serbian: Cyrillic: тапета (sr) f. Roman: tapeta f. Slovak: tapeta (sk) f. Spanish: papel pintado (es) m., papel tapiz (es) m. Swedish: tapet (sv) c. Turkish: duvar kâğıdı (tr) Ukrainian: шпалери (špaléry) pl. Welsh: papur wal (cy) m.

computing: image used to cover a desktop

Czech: tapeta (cs) f. Finnish: taustakuva (fi) French: fond d'écran (fr), papier-peint (fr) (Windows), image de bureau (fr) (Mac OS, untiled), motif de bureau (fr) (Mac OS, tiled) German: Hintergrundbild (de) n., Wallpaper (de)

Greek: ταπετσαρία (el) f. (tapetsaría), φόντο (el) n. (fóndo) Japanese: 壁紙 (ja) (kabegami) Macedonian: позадина (mk) (pozádina) f. Persian: کاغذدیواری (fa) (kâqazdivâri) Swedish: skrivbordsbakgrund (sv) c., skrivbordsbild (sv) c.

Verb

wallpaper (third-person singular simple present wallpapers, present participle wallpapering, simple past and past participle wallpapered)

1. (transitive) To cover (a wall, a room, etc) with wallpaper.

Synonyms

• (cover with wallpaper): paper

Translations

to cover with wallpaper

Chinese: Mandarin: trad. 貼壁紙, simpl. 贴壁纸 (tiē bìzhǐ) Dutch: behangen (nl) Estonian: tapetseerima (et), tapeetima (et), tapeediga katma (et) Finnish: tapetoida (fi) French: (wall) tapisser (fr); (room) tapisser (fr) German: tapezieren (de) Japanese: 壁紙をはる (ja) (kabegami o haru)

Macedonian: тапетира (mk) (tapetíra) Persian: کاغذدیواری کردن (fa) (kâqazdivâri kardan) Polish: tapetować (pl) Russian: оклеивать обоями (ru) Slovak: tapetovať (sk) Spanish: empapelar (es) Swedish: tapetsera (sv)