PAPERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does papers mean? 

• PAPERS (noun)
  The noun PAPERS has 1 sense:

1. writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

  Familiarity information: PAPERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

document; papers; written document

Hypernyms ("papers" is a kind of...):

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

Meronyms (parts of "papers"):

preamble (a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose))

article; clause (a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "papers"):

instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)

report; study; written report (a written document describing the findings of some individual or group)

voucher (a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure)

specification ((patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention)

source (a document (or organization) from which information is obtained)

declaration; resolution; resolve (a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote)

resignation (a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign)

platform; political platform; political program; program (a document stating the aims and principles of a political party)

patent; patent of invention (a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention)

papyrus (a document written on papyrus)

ballot (a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting)

form (a printed document with spaces in which to write)

enclosure; inclosure (something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter)

copyright; right of first publication (a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work)

confession (a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party)

commercial document; commercial instrument (a document of or relating to commerce)

charter (a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation)

certificate; certification; credential; credentials (a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts)

capitulation (a document containing the terms of surrender)

brevet (a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay))

 Context examples 

If you sign papers on this day, you will have a venture that will stand the test of time.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When you have read those papers—my own diary and my husband's also, which I have typed—you will know me better.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was such a stupendous thing to know for certain that she put her hair in papers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A scene has just passed of such uncommon interest that, although it is highly probable that these papers may never reach you, yet I cannot forbear recording it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We’ve had nothing else this week back; nothing but papers, and a closed door, and the very meals left there to be smuggled in when nobody was looking.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You will leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given you.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The policeman and I agreed that our best plan would be to seize the woman before she could get rid of the papers, presuming that she had them.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had tried to keep it out of the papers, but there was some rumour in the Globe last night.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I suppose you have heard of it; indeed, you must have seen it in the papers.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Why, the papers were full of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)