Meaning

6 senses
  1. (UK, US)A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.

    The thief stole all the money and credit cards out of the old man's wallet.

    I forgot my wallet and left it at home.

    Portemonnaie, Portmonee, Brieftasche

    бума́жникbumážnik, кошелёкkošeljók, портмоне́portmonɛ́

    гамане́цьhamanécʹ

    a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money

  2. (broadly, informal)A person's bank account or assets.

    It's unknown if the pro running back's recent sex scandal will hit him in the wallet or not.

  3. An e-wallet or digital wallet.

  4. A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored.

    I won an auction online for a cheap CD wallet.

  5. (slang)A person's buttocks (the area of the body nearest where one keeps one's wallet).

    He fell down and landed on his wallet.

  6. (archaic)A bag or pouch.

    He brought with him a large wallet with some provisions for the road.

Examples

725 sentences
  1. Where did you find this wallet?

    Де ти знайшов цей гаманець?

    ruГде ты нашёл этот бумажник?

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  2. There's no money in my wallet.

    У моєму гаманці немає грошей.

    ruУ меня в кошельке нет денег.

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  3. I lost my wallet somewhere around here.

    Десь тут я загубив свій гаманець.

    ruГде-то здесь я потерял свой кошелек.

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  4. I left the keys with my wallet.

    Я залишив ключі разом із гаманцем.

    ruЯ оставил ключи вместе с бумажником.

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  5. Tom found a wallet on the sidewalk.

    Том знайшов на тротуарі гаманець.

    ruТом нашёл на тротуаре бумажник.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
case for keeping money:
Русский
By meaning 1
case for keeping money:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
case for keeping money:

Origin

From Middle English walet (“a bag, knapsack”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assum

From Middle English walet (“a bag, knapsack”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assumed Old Northern French *walet (“a roll; bag; a knapsack”), from Proto-Germanic *wal- (“to roll”). More at walk, well, wallow.

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Forms

plural: wallets
Singularwallet
Pluralwallets

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

23 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • stole my wallet
  • wallet at home
  • in his wallet
  • out his wallet
  • lost my wallet
  • find my wallet
  • in my wallet
  • his wallet and
  • stole your wallet
  • put his wallet
  • left my wallet
  • left his wallet

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wallet — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto