Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Writing paper and envelopes.
- n. Writing materials and office supplies.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The articles usually sold by stationers; the various materials employed in writing, such as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- Relating to writing, or consisting of writing-materials: as, stationery goods.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.
- adj. Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes
Etymologies
- stationer + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He'll be ensuring that all Government offices use both sides of scrap paper, for example, which will save 170 million in stationery costs.”
“I just remember that stationery is sold by a stationer, not a stationar.”
“The way I began to remember the difference was that I thought of the “e” in stationery as representing “eraser”, which of course is a piece of stationery.”
“Between May and October, FBI agents prepared "blind" memoranda (typed on plain stationery, with no identifying letterhead or names of sender or recipient) on forty "unfriendly" witnesses under consideration; when these blind memoranda proved inadequate, Hoover relented and ordered Hood to share the photostats of twenty-five membership cards obtained through the FBI break-ins at Party headquarters. 15”
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“Before i tell them for the umpteenth time i don't know where the stationery is now.”
“The best stationery is the stuff you write on and mail, don’t you agree?”
“If there’s nobody prescribing, the stationery is standard-issue. one friend there began collecting them to someday sell them on eBay as collectibles; not sure of the market for that, but more power to her.”
“Intel., arranged for the theft of letterhead stationery from the Nigerien Embassy in Rome, that later appeared in W’s SoU speech.”
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“That’s not very P.C. Gay stationery is the preferred term.”
“The stationery was the same pale blue of the letter Marie Lasourde had brought to Vincent.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stationery’.
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EN - confusables
Similar words meaning different things
torturous, wreathe, tortuous, wreath, titivate, titillate, stationary, storey, septic, principal, principle, story and 134 more...
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[Open] Correctly-spelled words that l...
Thanks to everyone who added to this list. (I moved it to a new URL, so all the words added on the first day are credited to me—sorry about that.)
(Here’s the original list with a slo...orignal, refect, collum, lightening, manakin, neumatic, mutch, miosis, radicle, tryptic, kyack, apatite and 119 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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TECH - department store terms
lift, flask, datum, cater, absorbable, access road, account book, acoustic, adding machine, adhesive, advisory service, aeration and 231 more...
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Tricky To Spell or Pronounce
ply, stationary, stationery, monetize, finagle, cartilaginous, apposite, languor, douceur, Umwelt, faze, sequela and 13 more...
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moving constants
insteadfast, assid tests, isentropic, swerveless, scedastic, stableful, fixure, compoise, still, withoutcessant, Cassini ovals, conchoid and 54 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2014 more...
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Words I hate!
Confusing, unclear, hard to spell, or just diagnostic of personal problems.
stationery, stationary, discreet, discrete, capital, capitol, cancelled, canceled, bureaucracy, hors d' oeuvres, judgment, committee
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Room At The Inn
Words to do with hotels, inns, resorts, guesthouses ... broad in scope :-)
no-show, guesthouse, booking, room, single, double, triple, restaurant, concierge, laundry service, turn-down, porter and 81 more...
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Words I can't spell
These words I have mispronounced/misspelled badly enough to make me terribly embarrassed or annoyed. Therefore, this list is my sorrow and my shame.
antiquated, reprehensible, stationary, stationery, surreptitious, modicum, efficacious, exacerbate, plaintive, etymology, embarrassed, ramifications and 4 more...
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Confused Spelling
the words which are confused with different spellings
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houseoftext's Words
neon, actually, stationery, hopeful, untitled, concrete, transit, pencil
Tweets
Looking for tweets for stationery.
fbharjo What is written upon it can be moving! Feb 12, 2012
Dan337
Jan 1, 2011reesetee I also think of a mountain peak, which is shaped like an "A." (Well, sort of.) Mountains don't move.
Funny how we come up with mnemonic devices for words like this. Feb 25, 2007
uselessness That's handy. Never thought of it that way. Feb 25, 2007
chained_bear Stationary stays put. You write on stationery. :) Feb 25, 2007
sonofgroucho I always have difficulty with stationary and stationery. Feb 25, 2007