wallpaper
/ˈwɔːlˌpeɪpə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.69 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Generic footage of a building or location that may be used in the background of a related news report.
Countable; Slang; Uncountable
noun
Gaudy mass-produced stamps, typically of little or no value and only produced for sale to collectors.
Countable; Informal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He is letting her select the wallpapers for the whole house."
- "This was not the wallpaper television that flickered away in the background in every dealing room but was not really watched. This was finely targeted and timely broadcast of stuff dealers would want to drop everything to watch."
- "Her experiences are too early and too much part of the emotional wallpaper to be grasped in this way."
- "He chose a Minecraft design as his computer's wallpaper."
- "You can design your own wallpaper using Paintbrush. A wallpaper appears on your desktop in tiles. The number of tiles that are needed to cover the desktop depends on the size of the canvas you use to create a wallpaper."
- "Scripts that include brief reference to a picture turn stock footage from 'wallpaper' to illustration."
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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Computing.