A cardboard box Noun
cardboard (countable and uncountable plural cardboards
A wood -based material resembling heavy paper , used in the manufacture of boxes , cartons and signs . Usage notes
Despite widespread general use in English, the term cardboard is deprecated in commerce and industry as not adequately defining a specific product.[1]
Translations
material resembling heavy paper
Albanian: karton (sq) m
Arabic: كَرْتُون (ar) m ( kartūn ) , وَرَق مُقَوَّى f ( waraq muqawwā )
Armenian: ստվարաթուղթ (hy) ( stvaratʻuġtʻ ) , կարտոն (hy) ( karton )
Asturian: cartón m
Azerbaijani: karton
Bashkir: ҡатырға ( qatırğa )
Belarusian: карто́н m ( kartón )
Bengali: পিচবোর্ড (bn) ( picobōrḍo )
Bulgarian: карто́н (bg) m ( kartón )
Burmese: စက္ဏူထူ ( caknuhtu )
Catalan: cartró (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 紙皮 ／ 纸皮 ( zi2 pei4 )
Mandarin: 紙板 ／ 纸板 (zh) ( zhǐbǎn ) , 硬紙板 ／ 硬纸板 (zh) ( yìngzhǐbǎn )
Czech: karton (cs) m
Danish: pap (da) n karton c
Dutch: karton (nl) n
Dzongkha: ཤོག་པང ( shog pang )
Esperanto: kartono
Estonian: papp (et) kartong
Faroese: papp n
Finnish: pahvi (fi) kartonki (fi)
French: carton (fr) m
Galician: cartón m
Georgian: კარტონი ( ḳarṭoni ) , მუყაო ( muq̇ao )
German: Karton (de) m Pappe (de) f
Greek: χαρτόνι (el) ( chartóni )
Hebrew: קַרְטוֹן (he) m ( kartón )
Hindi: गत्ता (hi) m ( gattā )
Hungarian: karton (hu)
Icelandic: pappi
Ido: kartono (io)
Indonesian: karton (id)
Ingrian: papka
Irish: cairtchlár (ga) m
Italian: cartone (it) m
Japanese: 段ボール (ja) ( だんボール, danbōru ) , 厚紙 (ja) ( あつがみ, atsugami ) , 板紙 (ja) ( いたがみ, itagami )
Kabuverdianu: papelon
Kazakh: картон ( karton )
Khmer: ការតុង ( kaatong )
Korean: 판지(板紙) (ko) ( panji )
Kyrgyz: картон ( karton )
Lao: ກະດາດແຂງ ( ka dāt khǣng )
Latvian: kartons m
Lithuanian: kartonas m
Luxembourgish: Kartrong m
Macedonian: картон m ( karton )
Malay: karton kadbod
Malayalam: കാർഡ്ബോർഡ് ( kāṟḍbōṟḍŭ )
Maori: pepamārō
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: картон (mn) ( karton ) , хатуу цаас ( xatuu caas ) , цаасан хавтас ( caasan xavtas ) ( China )
Mongolian: ᠺᠠᠷᠲ᠋ᠣᠨ ( karton ) , ᠬᠠᠲᠠᠭᠤ ( qataɣu čaɣasu ) , ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠰᠤᠨ ( čaɣasun qabtasu )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: papp (no) m
Nynorsk: papp m
Pashto: مقوا f ( moqawā )
Persian: مقوا (fa) ( moqavvâ )
Polish: karton (pl) m tektura (pl) f
Portuguese: papelão (pt) m
Romanian: carton (ro) n mucava (ro) f
Russian: карто́н (ru) m ( kartón )
Scottish Gaelic: cairt-bhòrd m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̀рто̄н m
Roman: kàrtōn (sh) m
Slovak: karton m
Slovene: lepenka f karton m
Spanish: cartón (es) m cartulina (es) f chapadur m ( South America )
Swedish: kartong (sv) c papp (sv) c
Tajik: картон (tg) ( karton )
Tatar: катырга ( qatırga ) , картон ( qarton )
Thai: กระดาษแข็ง (th) ( grà-dàat-kɛ̌ng )
Tibetan: ཤོག་པང ( shog pang )
Turkish: karton (tr) mukavva (tr)
Turkmen: karton
Ukrainian: карто́н m ( kartón )
Urdu: گتا m ( gattā )
Uyghur: كارتون ( karton )
Uzbek: karton (uz)
Vietnamese: các tông bìa cứng giấy bồi (vi)
Welsh: cardbord m
West Frisian: karton n
Yiddish: קאַרטאָן m ( karton )
Adjective
cardboard
Made of or resembling cardboard; ( figurative ) flat or flavorless .
1868 The Tomahawk , page 114 :The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character.
1973 Journal of Black Poetry , number 17 , page 27 :The thing really looked quite cardboard .
2008 Writing at Russia's Border 122 :While Lensky’s character is quite cardboard , Onegin’s manipulations and lack of ability to call off the duel because he fears society’s jibes, Lensky’s youth and naivety, and Tatiana’s reaction to the duel lend the event its gravity.
Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama , page 501 :
MUMMER 3 pulls out an inflated cushion with a very cardboard crown on it. 
