Definitions for Purse

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Purse purse

Spelling: [purs]

IPA: /pɜrs/

Purse is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in Purse (eprsu).

Definitions for Purse

noun

1. a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
2. a small bag, pouch, or case for carrying money.
3. anything resembling a purse in appearance, use, etc.
4. a sum of money offered as a prize or reward.
5. a sum of money collected as a present or the like.
6. money, resources, or wealth.

verb (used with object)

1. to contract into folds or wrinkles; pucker:
2. to put into a purse.

Origin of Purse

before 1100; (noun) Middle English, Old English purs, blend of pusa bag (cognate with Old Norse posi) and Medieval Latin bursa bag (≪ Greek býrsa hide, leather); (v.) Middle English pursen to

Examples for Purse

On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.

These are longer than traditional ads, mini-stories, designed to pull at heart- as well as purse strings.

"The purse I have already given you, Edricson," continued the lady.

A portly burgher was he, friendly of tongue and free of purse.

It is impossible to doubt that this passion is fatal to more than the purse.

"If your cask is leer, I warrant your purse is full, gaffer," shouted Hordle John.

The padlocked door down the hall was now open, and I found my purse.

She retrieved a cigarette from her purse and lit it without moving her face away from the screen.

Any trifle will serve—a purse of gold, or even a jewelled goblet.

When I travel and kids run up to me, all that the girls want to do is look in my purse and put on my lip glosses and chapsticks.