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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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
When they handed the property over, it boasted emerald green walls, a rattan monkey chandelier, and banana-leaf wallpaper.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 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
My eyes scan the plastic flowers near the sink, the faded wallpaper that Tía keeps telling her to take down, the wall clock shaped like a stopwatch, the teeny ants zigzagging near the leaky faucet.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
Its fine jewelry is paired with wallpapers from French design house Mauny and fabrics by Pierre Frey and Lee Jofa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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 great outdoors played a significant role in the design of the home, which was outfitted with multiple organic elements, including silk wallpapers, fossil stone floors, and rich wood accents and beams throughout.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026
"The target market for this is insanely small," he told one user on X last September who questioned his decision to launch a digital wallpapers app.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
He sits with Maxine on the fainting couch, leafing through a coffee table book she’d helped to edit on eighteenth-century French wallpapers, one side of the book resting on each of their knees.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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
He records his first-hand “George Perez Stories” podcast and YouTube videos in a studio wallpapered with every vinyl comedy album he can find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2024
Supercharged by TV, American nostalgia developed layers, like a living room wallpapered once a decade.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
Risking injury, my father and Jimmy Papanikolas carried everything up the secret stairway behind the wallpapered door.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
For more than half a century, Reita Green has run her own wallpapering business in and around Los Angeles.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
Since 1960 the former dancer and actress has run her own wallpapering business — lugging buckets, ladders and a folding table from her car to her clients’ homes by herself, well into her 80s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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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