Wallpaper

Noun

 * 1)  Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings.
 * 2)  A style or design of such material or image.
 * He is letting her select the wallpapers for the whole house.
 * 1)  An image or tiled pattern used as a background to personalize a computer desktop.

Synonyms

 * desktop image, desktop pattern

Derived terms

 * ingrain wallpaper
 * woodchip wallpaper

Verb

 * 1)  To cover (a wall, a room, etc) with wallpaper.

Synonyms

 * paper

Thesaurus
board, brick, clapboard, face, glass, glaze, lath, paper, plank, revet, shake, sheathe, shingle, slate, stone, thatch, tile, veneer, wall in, wall up, weatherboard

Etymology
From wall: + paper:

Noun

 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: paper-moger
 * Catalan: paper, paper pintat, paper d'empaperar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (bìzhǐ)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: behang, behangpapier , behangselpapier
 * Estonian: tapeet
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (tapetsaría)
 * Hebrew: טפט (ta'pet), טפיטי נייר (tapiti nyar), נְייָר־קִיר (nyar-kir)
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: тапет
 * Persian: کاغذدیواری
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: de
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: tapeta
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: шпалери (špaléry)
 * Welsh: papur wal


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French: fond d'écran, papier-peint, image de bureau , motif de bureau
 * German: Hintergrundbild, Wallpaper


 * Greek: (tapetsaría), φόντο (fóndo)
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian: کاغذدیواری
 * Swedish: skrivbordsbakgrund, skrivbordsbild

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (tiē bìzhǐ)
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: tapetseerima, tapeetima, tapeediga katma
 * Finnish:
 * French: (wall) ; (room)
 * German:


 * Japanese: 壁紙をはる
 * Macedonian: тапетира
 * Persian: کاغذدیواری کردن
 * Polish: tapetować
 * Slovak: tapetovať
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tapetsera