Usually means: Small quantity easily held hand.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word handful:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. handful: Merriam-Webster
  2. handful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. handful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. handful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. handful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Handful, handful: Wordnik
  7. handful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. handful: Wiktionary
  9. handful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. handful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. handful: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Handful, handful: Dictionary.com
  13. handful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Handful: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Handful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. handful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. handful: Rhymezone
  18. handful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. handful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. handful: FreeDictionary.org
  21. handful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. handful: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. handful: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. handful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. handful: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. handful: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. handful: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  The amount that a hand will grasp or contain.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A hand's breadth; four inches.
▸ noun:  A small number, usually approximately five.
▸ noun:  A group or number of things; a bunch.
▸ noun:  (informal) Something which can only be managed with difficulty.
▸ noun:  (slang) A five-year prison sentence.

Similar:
smattering, fistful, handfull, grip, pocketful, maniple, palmload, hand, footful, pinch, more...

Opposite:
sparse, scant, few, meager, scarce

Phrases:
mighty handful, to have one's handful, to have ones handful, Handful of Earth, Crazy Handful of Nothin', more...

Adjectives:
mere, small, little, double, tiny, relative, large, good, last, whole, big

Colors:
    beige,     sand,     tan,     khaki,     taupe, more...



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Similar:
smattering, fistful, handfull, grip, pocketful, maniple, palmload, hand, footful, pinch, more...

Opposite:
sparse, scant, few, meager, scarce

Phrases:
mighty handful, to have one's handful, to have ones handful, Handful of Earth, Crazy Handful of Nothin', A Handful of Dust, Handful of Rain, A Handful of Beauty, Handful of Soul, a handful, a handful of, more...

Adjectives:
mere, small, little, double, tiny, relative, large, good, last, whole, big

Colors:
    beige,     sand,     tan,     khaki,     taupe, more...



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