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wallet
/ˈwɑl.ət/
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What does wallet mean?
noun
- A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
- (informal) A person's bank account or assets.
- An e-wallet or digital wallet.
More meanings (3)
noun
- A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored.
- (slang) A person's buttocks (the area of the body nearest where one keeps one's wallet).
- (archaic) A bag or pouch.
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IPA pronunciation
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The dentist had been paid off the day before and had four dollars in his wallet at the moment.
The wary Cacambo had taken care to fill his wallet with bread, chocolate, bacon, fruit, and a few bottles of wine.
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In both, we find the owner and her family, the latter sometimes already hatched and sometimes still enclosed in the satin wallet.
Ray took a wallet from the pocket of the coat that was hanging beside him, and drew from it a little lump wrapped in worn tissue paper.
The wallet at Oxford looks much like a modern schoolboy’s satchel; leather straps are fixed to it, by which it was slung round the neck.