English
Etymology
paper weight
Pronunciation
Noun
paperweight (plural paperweights
A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away.
2013 Henry Petroski , “The Evolution of Eyeglasses ”, in American Scientist The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight .
Any object for this purpose.
John used his coffee mug as a paperweight.
( slang )
Translations
small, decorative, somewhat weighty object
Belarusian: прэс-пап'е́ n ( pres-papʺjé )
Bulgarian: преспапие́ n ( prespapié )
Catalan: petjapapers m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鎮紙 ／ 镇纸 (zh) ( zhènzhǐ ) , 镇纸 (zh) ( zhènzhǐ ) , 紙鎮 ／ 纸镇 ( zhǐzhèn ) , 纸镇 ( zhǐzhèn ) , 書鎮 ／ 书镇 (zh) ( shūzhèn ) , 书镇 (zh) ( shūzhèn ) , 紙壓 ／ 纸压 (zh) ( zhǐyā ) , 纸压 (zh) ( zhǐyā )
Czech: těžítko (cs) n
Dutch: presse-papier (nl)
Finnish: paperipaino
French: presse-papiers (fr) m presse-papier (fr) m
Galician: calcapapeis m
German: Briefbeschwerer (de) m
Greek: πρες παπιέ n ( pres papié )
Irish: tromán páipéir m
Italian: fermacarte (it) m
Japanese: 文鎮 ( ぶんちん, bunchin ) , 卦算 ( けいさん, keisan )
Korean: 문진 (ko) ( munjin )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Norman: paids à papi m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: brevpresse papirvekt m or f
Nynorsk: papirvekt f
Polish: przycisk do papieru m
Portuguese: pisa-papéis m
Romanian: prespapier (ro) n
Russian: пресс-папье́ (ru) n ( press-papʹjé )
Slovak: ťažítko n
Slovene: obtežilnik m
Spanish: pisapapeles (es) m
Swedish: brevpress (sv)
Turkish: prespapye
Ukrainian: прес-пап'є́ n ( pres-papʺjé )
Vietnamese: bàn thẩm chặn giấy
any object for this purpose
