wallpaper
Americannoun
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paper, usually with printed decorative patterns in color, for pasting on and covering the walls or ceilings of rooms, hallways, etc.
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any fabric, foil, vinyl material, etc., used as a wall or ceiling covering.
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Computers. a design or picture in the background of the primary display screen of a graphical user interface.
Personalize your tablet by changing the wallpaper.
verb (used with object)
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wallpapers,
present (3rd person singular)
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wallpapered,
past participle, past
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wallpapering
present participle
noun
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paper usually printed or embossed with designs for pasting onto walls and ceilings
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something pleasant but bland which serves as an unobtrusive background
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( as modifier )
wallpaper music
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computing a graphics file that can be displayed in certain applications behind or around the main dialogue boxes, working display areas, etc, for decoration
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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wallpapersimple
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wallpaperssimple
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have wallpaperedperfect
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has wallpaperedperfect
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am wallpaperingprogressive
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are wallpaperingprogressive
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is wallpaperingprogressive
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have been wallpaperingperfect progressive
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has been wallpaperingperfect progressive
Past
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wallpaperedsimple
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had wallpaperedperfect
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was wallpaperingprogressive
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were wallpaperingprogressive
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had been wallpaperingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of wallpaper
Example Sentences
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There are all sorts of giant gadgets for the games, which might involve skill or stamina or being smart and involve a giant gumball machine or lickable wallpaper, per the book and movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Eataly itself sells a $25.99 Alfredo that, unlike so many jarred Alfredo sauces, does not taste as though someone dissolved Parmesan into wallpaper paste.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
As if to underscore the radical turn these artists were making, the paintings are hung on an ornate plum-red wallpaper in a wainscoted gallery that harks back to the Grand Palais’s look.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Witkoff has become so ubiquitous in international transactions that his role as the co-founder of Trump’s business has all but faded into the gilt wallpaper of the Oval Office.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
The plants had grown in the windows, and one of the black cats had had a litter, and the wallpaper had changed from slate gray to haint blue.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
The bathrooms exude charm thanks to their patterned wallpapers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
He raised the roof of the house he inherited; added wings, a porch and a cupola; and selected—along with his wife, Martha—the interior’s paint colors, wallpapers and furniture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
The popular YouTuber Marques Brownlee has announced he plans to shut down his subscription app for mobile phone wallpapers, Panels.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
“Certain colors get canceled out. You have to think about wallpapers, upholstery and drapery fabric. Those are the big things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
Flames had made their way into the lobby, catching on the thick carpet, on the restored wallpapers, the posters.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
The Boston Globe’s lead baseball scribe wallpapered the sports section with his Sunday Notes column, providing intelligence from all around Major League Baseball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Common to much of the user-generated content are eerie images and haunting stories of mysterious, yellow wallpapered corridors and empty office-like spaces that exist outside of, or beyond, reality itself.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
The kitchen and primary bedroom suite’s walk-in closet were wallpapered, which he said “changed the nature of the entire space.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
One room of the show is wallpapered in a printed motif of enormous leaves, smeared here and there with giant slathers of fecal brown paint, on which paintings hang.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
The bedroom had been wallpapered with pictures of Ladybird Hope.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
If Nickey and Kehoe are working with a lively pattern in a bedroom, for instance, wallpapering a single wall behind the bed may be enough.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
She says the company took her and her colleagues on training courses to learn how to to do DIY, such as painting and wallpapering.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
These long chains of fractions could stretch out across 15 feet of notebook pages wallpapering his cell.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2023
Within months, Pate, 28, became Green’s partner in wallpapering, her protégé and her best friend.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
The mural itself had been damaged in spots by all the wallpapering done over it, so she was not able to make out the artist’s signature.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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