LOCKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does locket mean? 

• LOCKET (noun)
  The noun LOCKET has 1 sense:

1. a small ornamental case; usually contains a picture or a lock of hair and is worn on a necklace

  Familiarity information: LOCKET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small ornamental case; usually contains a picture or a lock of hair and is worn on a necklace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("locket" is a kind of...):

case (a portable container for carrying several objects)

 Context examples 

She drew a large silver locket from her bosom.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He opened a locket and showed us the full face of a very lovely woman.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I knew where to find in my drawers some linen, a locket, a ring.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She showed me his picture as an infant, in a locket, with some of his baby-hair in it; she showed me his picture as he had been when I first knew him; and she wore at her breast his picture as he was now.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Of course you saw the ‘J.H.’ monogram on my locket,” said he.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)