stationery
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- noun
- /ˈsteɪʃəˌnɛri/
:
papelería
- I need to buy some stationery for writing thank-you notes.
- office stationery
- stationery store
Examples
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Natalya went to the stationery drawer and got out some paper and a pen.
Fiction book (1996) -
We called the phone number on the stationery and talked to somebody at the bank.
Fiction book (1995) -
You know, the kind you get at a stationery store.
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Before that I worked in a stationery store.
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I brought the stationery like I promised.
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Her address book, date book, stationery, some mail, that sort of thing.
Fiction book (1991) -
I think I still got some of that stationery.
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The paper was fancy stationery from a hotel he said he managed.
Academic text (2007) -
I hope you didn't order your stationery yet.
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Are thank-you notes on personalized stationery a thing of the past?
Academic text (2011)
Compounds
A shop or person who sells writing and office supplies like pens and notebooks
How Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stationery comes from the old word stationer, a seller who worked at a fixed place called station, meaning 'a fixed place', and who sold books, paper, and pens. So stationery came to mean the paper and writing things you buy from that seller.