Synonyms for purse
pɜrs

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1. bag, handbag, pocketbook, purse(noun)

   a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)

   "she reached into her bag and found a comb"

   Synonyms:
   travelling bag, old bag, bag, dish, cup of tea, udder, wallet, pocket edition, base, pocketbook, billfold, notecase, bagful, pocket book, grip, traveling bag, handbag, suitcase

2. purse(noun)

   a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse

   "he made the contribution out of his own purse"; "he and his wife shared a common purse"

   Synonyms:
   bag, pocketbook, handbag

3. purse(noun)

   a small bag for carrying money

   Synonyms:
   bag, pocketbook, handbag

4. purse(verb)

   a sum of money offered as a prize

   "the purse barely covered the winner's expenses"

   Synonyms:
   bag, pocketbook, handbag

5. purse(verb)

   contract one's lips into a rounded shape

   Synonyms:
   wrinkle

6. purse, wrinkle(verb)

   gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker

   "purse ones's lips"

   Synonyms:
   ruckle, crinkle, scrunch up, crumple, crease, crisp, scrunch, rumple, wrinkle, furrow

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. purse(noun)

   Synonyms:
   pucker

2. purse(noun)

   To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.

   Synonyms:
   coin purse, pocketbook, change purse, handbag, pucker

3. purse(noun)

   A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.

   Synonyms:
   grant, bursary

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   bag, handbag, sac, sack, wallet, backpack, pocketbook, seine, knapsack, satchel, treasury, pocket, award, pack

How to pronounce purse?

Alex

US English

Daniel

British

Karen

Australian

Veena

Indian

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How to use purse in a sentence?

1. Ramesh Swamy:

   I think folks are willing to open up their purse a little bit more this year, it should be a pretty good day.

2. Thomas Arnold Bennett:

   You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

3. Italian Proverb:

   Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

4. Margaret Turnbull:

   When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

5. Christian Schulz:

   Everyone got caught up in the debate of deflation, Greece and the Ukraine crisis and so expectations were quite low, it now seems the deflation story is a positive one for the euro zone since cheaper oil means consumers spend less on energy and have more money in their purse.

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