Definitions for papers
pa·pers

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1. document, written document, papersnoun

   writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

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1. papersnoun

   Official documents or identification, as a passport.

   He lost his papers while travelling and had a hard time getting home.

2. papersnoun

   Plural form of paper.

Matched Categories

1. • Writing

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'papers' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1688

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'papers' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1329

Anagrams for papers »

1. sapper

How to pronounce papers?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of papers in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of papers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of papers in a Sentence

1. Stephen Mills:

   Unfortunately there wasn't what we thought was there, some papers, old checks, a waitress' notepad, and a receipt from the hotel, that's it.

2. Mohammad Talap:

   After arriving at( Athens') Piraeus port this morning, we all came to the center of Athens Omonia, at Athens Omonia square, we were on Kos island for 12 days. We had serious problems and went through lot of hardship, having no food and water, while everybody was asking us for( our identity) papers, papers after papers.' . Mohammad Talap said he wants to travel away from recession-hit Greece to EU economic powerhouse Germany.

3. Tom Peters:

   Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.

4. Chris McKay:

   I've seen many papers that say 'Look, here's a pile of dirt on Mars, and here's a pile of dirt on Earth,' and because they look the same, the same mechanism must have made each pile on the two planets.'.

5. H. L. Mencken:

   A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

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