paperweight
/pˈeɪpɚwˌeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away.
Example Sentences
- "The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight."
- "John used his coffee mug as a paperweight."
- "On Windows, the card has a working driver. On Linux right now, it's a paperweight."