Wallet Meaning
/ˈwɒl.ɪt/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
nounA person's bank account or assets.
Sentence Examples
I have lost my wallet.
Get out your wallet.
I had my wallet stolen on my way to the office.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He pulled out his ____ from his pocket to pay for the coffee.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I realized that I had left my ____ on the kitchen table after I arrived at the supermarket.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Master leathercrafter does handcrafted wallets, belts, purses, handbags etc., supporting self and helpers. Good enough to carve fantst art and portraits into leather."
— 1987 August 15, Robert Benitez, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 14:
"In all of India, China, Africa, and much of the southern American continent, those who had the leisure and wallet for fashion—or more simply, in the poorer latitudes, for the mere acquisition of things—would have killed for the street merchandise of Manhattan […]"
— 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 6:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He pulled out his ____ from his pocket to pay for the coffee.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I realized that I had left my ____ on the kitchen table after I arrived at the supermarket.