- Archaic a knapsack
- a flat pocketbook, as of leather, with compartments for paper money, cards, etc.; billfold
Origin of wallet
Middle English walet from uncertain or unknown; perhapswallet
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wallet
noun
A flat pocket-sized folding case, usually made of leather, for holding paper money, cards, or photographs; a billfold.
Origin of wallet
Middle English walet knapsack possibly from Old North French walet roll, knapsack ; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural wallets)
- A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
- The thief stole all the money and credit cards out of the old man's wallet.
- (by extension, slang) A person's bank account or assets.
- It's unknown if the pro running back's recent sex scandal will hit him in the wallet or not.
- A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored.
- I won an auction online for a cheap CD wallet.
- (archaic) A bag or pouch.
- He brought with him a large wallet with some provisions for the road.
Origin
Middle English walet (“wallet, bag, knapsack"). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assumed Old Northern French *walet "bag, knapsack", from Proto-Germanic *wal- (“to roll"). More at walk, well, wallow.
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wallet - Computer Definition
See digital wallet, Google Wallet and Apple Wallet.
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Sentence Examples
- Get out your wallet, honey.
- Alex paid for his ticket and tucked the wallet inside his suit jacket.
- And indeed his huge wallet of scraps stood him in little stead at the trim banquets to which he was invited at Oxford, while the wandering habits by which he had filled it absolutely unfitted him to be a guest.
- Most restaurants here offer buffet options that won't bust your wallet as well as meal options for the strict vegetarian in your group.
- You won't feel a sharp pain in your wallet when you get the bill at this little cafe.
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