WRITING PAPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does writing paper mean? 

• WRITING PAPER (noun)
  The noun WRITING PAPER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WRITING PAPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRITING PAPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("writing paper" is a kind of...):

paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)

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

letter paper; stationery (paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes)

notepaper (writing paper intended for writing short notes or letters)

rag paper (paper made partly or wholly from rags)

bond; bond paper (a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents)

ledger paper (a durable writing paper used in record books and business ledgers)

laid paper (writing paper having a watermark of fine lines running across the grain)

wove paper (writing paper having a very faint mesh pattern)

letter paper (writing paper for use in writing correspondence)

ola; olla (leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper)

typewriter paper; typing paper (writing paper suitable for use in a typewriter)

vellum (a heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment)

 Context examples 

The light in the cabin was dim, filtering through in a small window made of onion-skin writing paper and oiled with bacon grease, so that John Messner could not make out very well what the woman looked like.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)