file folder

American  

noun

file folders plural

1. a thin cardboard folder of a size to be stored in the drawer of a file cabinet and for containing correspondence and other files.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• file folders
  plural

Example Sentences

"I took the crumpled sheets, smoothed them out, read the crazy leaping lines, smiled to myself at the leaps that never landed and then put the sheets into a file folder," he added.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2025

I grabbed a file folder and in large black permanent marker wrote “Make the seat.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022

Ms. Blackburn was barred from the university’s supercomputing cluster — with her file folder labeled “Bitcoin,” she was suspected of mining the cryptocurrency.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2022

She keeps a file folder at home of “little notes that say ‘hey you made a difference.’”

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2022

I look through the glass door, and I can see my file folder there on the corner of the card table, my time line, and the lists of stuff in my room.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements