Purse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.
  • n. A small bag or pouch for carrying money.
  • n. Something that resembles a bag or pouch.
  • n. Available wealth or resources; money.
  • n. A sum of money collected as a present or offered as a prize.
  • v. To gather or contract (the lips or brow) into wrinkles or folds; pucker.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small bag for carrying money.
  • n. A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
  • n. A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
  • v. To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
  • v. To steal purses; to rob.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie.
  • n. Hence, a treasury; finances.
  • n. A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present
  • n. A specific sum of money.
  • n. In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
  • n. In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
  • v. To put into a purse.
  • v. To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
  • verb-intransitive. To steal purses; to rob.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A bag or pouch; specifically, a small bag or case in which money is contained or carried.
  • n. Figuratively, money; means; resources.
  • n. A treasury; finances: as, to exhaust a nation's purse, or the public purse.
  • n. A purseful of money; a sum of money offered as a prize or collected as a present: as, to win the purse in a horse-race; to make up a purse as a present.
  • n. A specific sum of money.
  • n. In zoology and anatomy, some kind of a pouch, bursa, marsupium, or ovicapsule.
  • n. An officer of the British royal household charged with the payment of the sovereign's private expenses. His official title is keeper of the privy purse.
  • To put in a purse.
  • To contract into folds or wrinkles; knit; pucker: frequently with up.
  • To take purses; rob.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse
  • v. contract one's lips into a rounded shape
  • n. a sum of money offered as a prize
  • n. a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
  • n. a small bag for carrying money
  • v. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    pursed    purses    pursing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    amount    sum of money    amount of money    sum    bag    contract   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wallet    pocketbook    portemonnaie    finances    pucker    knit    rob    bag    pocket    burse   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Perse    adverse    averse    biodiverse    burse    coerce    converse    curse    disburse    disperse   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wallet    bag    glove    shoe    pouch    briefcase    cloak    shawl    slipper    belt