Usually means: Blending two words into one.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word portmanteau:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Portmanteau: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portmanteau: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portmanteau: Wordcraft Dictionary

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portmanteau: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See portmanteaus as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.
noun:  (Australia, dated) A schoolbag.
noun:  (archaic) A hook on which to hang clothing.
adjective:  (attributive, linguistics) Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau.
noun:  (linguistics) A portmanteau word.
noun:  A portmanteau film.
verb:  (transitive) To create a portmanteau word.

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