Definitions for packet

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packet pack·et

Spelling: [pak-it]

IPA: /ˈpæk ɪt/

Packet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in packet (acekpt).

Definitions for packet

noun

1. a small group or package of anything:
2. Also called packet boat, packet ship. a small vessel that carries mail, passengers, and goods regularly on a fixed route, especially on rivers or along coasts.
3. Cards. a part of a pack of cards after being cut.
4. Informal. a large amount of money.
5. Digital Technology. a relatively small unit of data sent over a network:
6. British Slang. a painful blow or beating. misfortune or failure.

verb (used with object)

1. to bind up in a package or parcel.

Origin of packet

1520-30; Middle French pacquet, equivalent to pacqu(er) to pack¹ + -et -et

Examples for packet

Fold the bottom tip of dough up and press to seal into a packet.

She picked up a packet of the chocolate and looked at the name of the maker.

She thrust the packet into a side pocket and started to the garage with the coat.

My father began to open his morning's packet of letters and newspapers.

There were rumors along Broadway in the following week that Rothstein had lost a packet.

His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto.

Reading The Bone Clocks is like working your way through a packet of Starbursts at one go.

You see me in the plight in which I came out of the packet within this half-hour.

Anatabloc has even proudly posted a photo of the governor holding a packet of the supplement on its Facebook page.

We have just hoisted the nun-lady on board an English packet.