Wallet
['wɒlɪt] or ['wɑlɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money.
Editor: Rodney--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
(n.) Anything protuberant and swagging.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Bag, sack, knapsack.[2]. Pocket-book.
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Definition
n. a bag for carrying necessaries on a journey: a knapsack: a pocket-book: a bag for tools: (Shak.) anything protuberant.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see wallets in a dream, foretells burdens of a pleasant nature will await your discretion as to assuming them. An old or soiled one, implies unfavorable results from your labors.
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Examples
- I took off my coat, took my wallet with my papers and my money all wet in it out of the inside pocket and then wrung the coat out. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We greedily eat and drink poison out of the gilded cup of vice or from the beggar's wallet of avarice. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Was it not he of St Ives whom they tied to an oak-tree, and compelled to sing a mass while they were rifling his mails and his wallets? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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