STATIONERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stationery mean? 

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

1. paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATIONERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

letter paper; stationery

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

writing paper (paper material made into thin sheets that are sized to take ink; used for writing correspondence and manuscripts)

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

letterhead (a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top)

 Context examples 

Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Adequately organize his/her correspondence with respect to stationery, address, stamps?

(DAD - Adequately Organize Correspondence, NCI Thesaurus)

I observed, however, that Mr. Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggotty down a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the man who was gradually becoming more and more etherealized in my eyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed to me to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like a little lighthouse in a sea of stationery.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On these occasions Mr. Dick never travelled without a leathern writing-desk, containing a supply of stationery and the Memorial; in relation to which document he had a notion that time was beginning to press now, and that it really must be got out of hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)