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wallet

/ˈwɑl.ət/

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What does wallet mean?

noun

  1. A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
  2. (informal) A person's bank account or assets.
  3. An e-wallet or digital wallet.
More meanings (3)

noun

  1. A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored.
  2. (slang) A person's buttocks (the area of the body nearest where one keeps one's wallet).
  3. (archaic) A bag or pouch.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈwɑl.ət/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈwɔl.ət/
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The dentist had been paid off the day before and had four dollars in his wallet at the moment.
Frank NorrisMcTeague: A Story of San FranciscoProject Gutenberg ebook #165
The wary Cacambo had taken care to fill his wallet with bread, chocolate, bacon, fruit, and a few bottles of wine.
VoltaireCandideProject Gutenberg ebook #19942
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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.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the SpiderTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #1887
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.
Willa CatherThe Song of the LarkProject Gutenberg ebook #44
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.
Ernest Albert SavageOld English libraries : $b the making, collection, and use of books during the Middle AgesProject Gutenberg ebook #1615