Papers
Pronunciation
Noun
plural
- Plural of paper.
- (plural only) Official documents or identification, as a passport.
- 2013-01, Brian Hayes, Father of Fractals, Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
- He lost his papers while travelling and had a hard time getting home.