wallet, billfold, notecase, pocketbook
(noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wallet (plural wallets)
A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
(by extension, informal) A person's bank account or assets.
A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored.
(archaic) A bag or pouch.
(slang) A person's buttocks (the area of the body nearest where one keeps one's wallet).
• billfold
• pocketbook
• Atwell, Etwall, all wet
Source: Wiktionary
Wal"let, n. Etym: [OE. walet, probably the same word as OE. watel a bag. See Wattle.]
1. A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack. [His hood] was trussed up in his walet. Chaucer.
2. A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
3. Anything protuberant and swagging. "Wallets of flesh." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
