WALLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wallet mean? 

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

1. a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

billfold; notecase; pocketbook; wallet

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

case (a portable container for carrying several objects)

 Context examples 

“It is as empty as a beggar's wallet.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was noon when I awoke, and allured by the warmth of the sun, which shone brightly on the white ground, I determined to recommence my travels; and, depositing the remains of the peasant’s breakfast in a wallet I found, I proceeded across the fields for several hours, until at sunset I arrived at a village.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I recollect one young fellow—a tinker, I suppose, from his wallet and brazier—who had a woman with him, and who faced about and stared at me thus; and then roared to me in such a tremendous voice to come back, that I halted and looked round.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have carried all that I had into France in a wallet, and it hath taken four sumpter-mules to carry it back again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had sat down here to die, quoth the palmer; but for many years I have carried in my wallet these precious things which you see set forth now before me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The walls of bare unpainted planks were studded here and there with great wooden pins, placed at irregular intervals and heights, from which hung over-tunics, wallets, whips, bridles, and saddles.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alleyne, lingering behind, bethought him of the Lady Loring's counsel, and reduced the noble gift which the knight had so freely bestowed to a single penny, which the beggar with many mumbled blessings thrust away into his wallet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Jimmy sent me this picture." He took out his wallet with trembling fingers. "Look there."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"All right, old sport," called Gatsby. We slowed down. Taking a white card from his wallet he waved it before the man's eyes.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

He seemed reluctant to put away the picture, held it for another minute, lingeringly, before my eyes. Then he returned the wallet and pulled from his pocket a ragged old copy of a book called "Hopalong Cassidy."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)