English
Noun
wallpaper (countable and uncountable, plural wallpapers)
- (uncountable) Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.
- (countable) A style or design of such material.
- He is letting her select the wallpapers for the whole house.
- (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
Translations
decorative paper for walls
- Arabic: وَرَق اَلْحَائِط m (waraq al-ḥāʾiṭ)
- Belarusian: шпалери pl (špaljéry)
- Breton: paper-moger m
- Catalan: paper m, paper pintat, paper d'empaperar
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 壁紙 (zh), 壁纸 (zh) (bìzhǐ), 牆紙 (zh), 墙纸 (zh) (qiángzhǐ)
- Crimean Tatar: divar kâğıtı
- Czech: tapeta f
- Danish: tapet (da) n
- Dutch: behang (nl) n, behangpapier n, behangselpapier (nl) n
- Esperanto: tapeto
- Estonian: tapeet
- Finnish: tapetti (fi)
- French: papier peint (fr) m
- German: Tapete (de) f
- Greek: ταπετσαρία (el) f (tapetsaría)
- Hebrew: טפט m (ta'pet), טפיטי נייר (tapiti nyar), נְייָר־קִיר (nyar-kir)
- Hungarian: tapéta (hu)
- Italian: carta da parati f
- Japanese: 壁紙 (かべがみ, kabegami)
- Korean: 벽지 (ko) (byeokji) (壁紙 (ko))
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computing: image used to cover a desktop
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電腦桌布, 电脑桌布 (diànnǎo zhuōbù), 電腦壁紙, 电脑壁纸 (diànnǎo bìzhǐ), 桌面背景 (zhuōmiàn bèijǐng)
- Czech: tapeta f
- Finnish: taustakuva (fi)
- French: fond d'écran (fr), arrière-plan (fr), papier-peint (Windows), image de bureau (Mac OS, untiled), motif de bureau (Mac OS, tiled)
- German: Hintergrundbild n, Wallpaper
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- Greek: ταπετσαρία (el) f (tapetsaría) (tapetsaría), φόντο (el) n (fónto) (fóndo)
- Japanese: 壁紙 (かべがみ, kabegami)
- Macedonian: позадина f (pozádina)
- Persian: کاغذدیواری (kâqazdivâri)
- Portuguese: papel de parede (pt)
- Russian: обо́и (ru) m pl (obói)
- Swedish: skrivbordsbakgrund (sv) c, skrivbordsbild c
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Verb
wallpaper (third-person singular simple present wallpapers, present participle wallpapering, simple past and past participle wallpapered)
- (transitive) To cover (a wall, a room, etc) with wallpaper.
Synonyms
- (cover with wallpaper): paper
Translations
to cover with wallpaper
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- Macedonian: тапетира (tapetíra)
- Persian: کاغذدیواری کردن (kâqazdivâri kardan)
- Polish: tapetować
- Portuguese: empapelar
- Russian: оклеивать обоями (okleivatʹ obojami)
- Slovak: tapetovať
- Spanish: empapelar (es)
- Swedish: tapetsera
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