English-Dutch translations for wallpaper

• behang
• behangen
  Dit Parlement heeft al zoveel resoluties aangenomen dat Aung San Suu Kyi er de muren van het huis waar zij gevangen zit mee zou kunnen behangen. This House has passed enough resolutions for Aung San Suu Kyi to wallpaper the house that remains her prison.
  Kortom: we hebben iets weg van een man wiens dak lekt, maar die, in plaats van het dak te repareren, zijn kelder gaat behangen. To sum up, we are a little bit like the man whose roof is leaking, but instead of fixing it he starts to wallpaper his cellar.
• behangpapier
• behangselpapier

Definition of wallpaper

• Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings
• A style or design of such material
• Anything that serves as a background or part of the surroundings
• An image or tiled pattern used as the background of a computer desktop
• Generic footage of a building or location that may be used in the background of a related news report
• Gaudy mass-produced stamps, typically of little or no value and only produced for sale to collectors
• To cover with wallpaper

Synonyms

• desktop
• image
• desktop
• pattern

Examples

• He is letting her select the wallpapers for the whole house.

Related words

• wallpapering
• wallpaper adhesive
• wallpaper paste
• ingrain wallpaper
• wood-chip wallpaper