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Definition: Stationery |
StationeryNoun1. Paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stationery" was first used: 1727. (references) |
Synonyms: StationerySynonyms: letter paper (n), notepaper (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Stationery is a general name given to paper and office supplies such as envelopes, notepads, pens, pencils, paper clips, staples, etc and refers to all products sold by "stationers". The term "stationery" is frequently used to refer more specifically to paper used for written correspondence, usually decorated and/or personalized with matching envelopes.
Although it is a common error to mis-spell "stationery" as "stationary" and vice versa, the word "stationery" was originally spelled with an "a" in English. It derives from the fact that such products were sold in "stationary" shops and not from travelling vendors.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stationery."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Writing | Stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stationery |
| English words defined with "stationery": letterhead ♦ monogram. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stationery": COLORER, CPU Wars, CUSTOMER-SERVICE CLERK, customer-service specialist, post exchange ♦ perforator operator ♦ RAISED PRINTER ♦ thermograph operator, TYPESETTER-PERFORATOR OPERATOR. (references) |
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 | Sounding device made by William P. Trowbridge for Coast Survey Line would pay out of a descending cylinder and stationery cylinder on deck Similar to modern bathythermograph copper wire instrument Civil War intervened stopping research Probably would have worked. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | John G. Stemler, stationery, Amsterdam, Holland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sosnick & Thalheimer, business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Stationery. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She reached behind one of the boxes that had served as chairs and brought out a stationery box, old and soiled and cracked at the corners. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | And for the studious, lamplight, stationery, and access to a few books, rank next to necessaries, and can all be obtained at a trifling cost. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Typically, a physician's letter stating the reason for withholding the vaccination and written on letterhead stationery is required by the embassy or consulate. (references) | |
Business | Most end users buy books from book stores, stationery stores, supermarkets and schools. (references) | |
Since the market is price sensitive, when it comes to stationery and other low-tech products, these countries have a distinct advantage over the US. However, the US remains highly competitive in upper-end high-tech products such as multimedia projectors, copiers, and fax machines. (references) | ||
Suppliers and manufacturers of corporate and premium gifts can exhibit their range of products to buyers of corporate gifts at the Singapore Gifts & Premiums Show which will be held on July 25 - 27, 2001. The event for 2001 will be expanded to include retail gifts, handicrafts and stationery. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | Although unregistered organizations often can disseminate literature, hold meetings, and use letterhead stationery without government interference, they do not exist as legal entities and have no real access to the media or government. (references) |
Economic History | Hungary | The primary products available on B2C e-commerce websites are books, music, stock trading, stationery, electronics and gifts. (references) |
Ireland | These sectors include: furniture, soft furnishings, housewares, DIY/hardware, giftware, jewelry, toiletries and cosmetics, non food groceries, clothing, footwear, toys, stationery, music/books, sports goods, and leisure products. (references) | |
Political Rights | Honduras | Each signature must be notarized on separate sheets of government stationery, each of which costs approximately $9 (150 lempiras). (references) |
Honduras | A sixth party, PUEBLO-H, attempted to register a presidential candidate but was unable to raise sufficient funds to pay for the government stationery. (references) | |
Trade | Botswana | Most items of food, construction materials, capital goods, medicines, books and stationery are exempted. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stationery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.69% of the time. "Stationery" is used about 318 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.69% | 317 | 16,212 |
| Noun (common) | 0.31% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 318 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stationery": office stationery ♦ stationery office ♦ stationery seller ♦ stationery shop. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stationery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | letër shkrimi (note paper, writing paper), artikuj shkrimi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | القرطاسية الأقلام وأدوات كتابة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | канцеларски принадлежности (writing materials). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 文具 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | papírnictví, papírnické zboží. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | helsag (letter-card, postal stationery, stamped paper), endeloese baner tre false plus to (zoned continuous stationery three fold plus two). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | poststuk met zegelopdruk (letter-card, postal stationery, stamped paper), poststuk met opgedrukt frankeerzegel (letter-card, postal stationery, stamped paper), gezoneerde kettingformulieren in drievoud met twee kopieën (zoned continuous stationery three fold plus two). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kirjoitustarvikkeet (writing materials). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | papeterie (stationer's shop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schreibwaren (writing materials). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χαρτικά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מכשירי כתיב", צרכי כתיב", יר (document, paper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | irodaszer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cartoleria (stationary, stationery shop), articoli di cancelleria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 文房具 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | び"せ" (available steamer, writing paper), ひつぼく (pen and ink, writing materials), ぶ"ぼうぐ, ようせ" (chartered ship, chartering or hiring a vessel, molten iron, writing pad), じむようひ" (office supplies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 문구용'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | staishoneyraght, pabreydys, cullee screeu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ationerystay papelaria (stationer's, stationer's shop), artigos de papelaria, artigos de escritório. (various references) papetãrie (stationer's shop), hârtie de scris (writing paper). (various references) канцелярские товары, почтовая бумага (letter paper, letter-paper, note paper, notepaper, note-paper, writing paper, writing-paper). (various references) pribor za pisanje (ink stand, inkstand, pen and ink). (various references) papelería (stationer's, stationer's shop), papel de escribir (note paper, writing paper), papel (cameo, document, lead, lines, paper, part, role). (various references) skrivpapper (writing paper). (various references) yazı malzemesi, mektup kâğıtları ve zarflar, kırtasiye (paper work, red tape). (various references) канцелярське приладдя, поштовий папір (letter paper, note paper). (various references) đ" dùng văn phòng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | stationarius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Stationery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stationarey, stationarii, statione, stationeay, stationnary, stationry, statonary, stayionary, Stazione, sttionery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Expression | Similar | Related | Narrower | Broader |
| Billheads | Stationery | |||
| Business enterprises | Stationery trade | |||
| Envelopes | Stationery | |||
| Ephemera | Stationery | |||
| Greeting cards | Stationery | |||
| Letterheads | Stationery | |||
| Postal stationery | Stationery | |||
| Postcards | Stationery | |||
| Stationery | Envelopes Postcards Stationery trade | Billheads Greeting cards Letterheads Postal stationery | Ephemera | |
| Stationery trade | Stationery shops | Stationery | Business enterprises | |
Source: the U.S. Library of Congress and various crossword puzzle references. | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stationery" (pronounced stā"shune'rē) |
| 9 | s t ā" sh u n e' r ē | stationary. |
| 7 | -ā" sh u n e' r ē | deflationary, disinflationary, inflationary, noninflationary, probationary. |
| 6 | -sh u n e' r ē | cautionary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, counterrevolutionary, dictionary, discretionary, evolutionary, expansionary, expeditionary, functionary, missionary, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary. |
| 5 | -u n e' r ē | bicentenary, cardiopulmonary, centenary, coronary, culinary, disciplinary, diversionary, exclusionary, extraordinary, illusionary, imaginary, interdisciplinary, luminary, mercenary, ordinary, preliminary, pulmonary, seminary, urinary, veterinary, visionary. |
| 4 | -n e' r ē | quaternary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, Cassowary, cemetery, cometary, commentary, commissary, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, cranberry, customary, depositary, Dewberry, dietary, dignitary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, military, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, nonmilitary, obituary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, primary, proprietary, raspberry, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, solitary, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: antistory, attorneys, stationer. | |
-2 letters: attorney, intreats, nitrates, notaries, senorita, snottier, straiten, strontia, tanistry, tenorist, tertians, toastier, tritones, tyrosine. | |
-3 letters: anestri, antsier, aroints, aroynts, artiest, artiste, atoners, atonies, attires, attorns, erasion, instate, intorts, intreat, iratest, iterant, nastier, natters, nattier, nitrate, norites, notates, oestrin, orients, ostiary, ratines, rations, ratites, rattens, rattons, retains, retinas, retints, retsina. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: attorneyship. | |
+3 letters: attorneyships, contrastively, geostationary, investigatory. | |
+4 letters: hypnotherapist, seronegativity, symmetrization. | |
+5 letters: demonstrability, demonstratively, dorsiventrality, dorsoventrality, hypnotherapists, proselytization, remonstratively, symmetrizations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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