Definition of "papers"

papers

/ˈpeɪpɚz/

noun
1. plural of paper.
noun
plural only
1. Official documents or identification, as a passport.
  Quotations
  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.
  2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 1, page 62
  The arrival of the British Consul at Bangkok shall not take place before the ratification of this Treaty, nor until ten vessels owned by British subjects, sailing under British colours and with British papers, shall have entered the port of Bangkok for purposes of trade, subsequent to the signing of this Treaty.
  1856, “Treaty signed April 18, 1855; ratified April 5, 1856”, in Treaty of friendship and commerce between Great Britain and Siam, Bangkok: J. H. Chandler, page 7
2. A collection of documents, unpublished writing or correspondence in an archive or library collection.
3. (Australia) cigarette papers
  Quotations
  "All right, if you happen to be over that way, just get me some fags. No, wait a shake, get me a tin of cigarette tobacco and some papers."
  1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 76
verb
1. third-person singular simple present indicative of paper