Usually means: Small bag for carrying money.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word purse:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. purse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. purse: Merriam-Webster
  3. purse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. purse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. purse: Collins English Dictionary
  6. purse: Vocabulary.com
  7. Purse, purse: Wordnik
  8. purse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Purse, purse: Wiktionary
  10. purse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. purse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. purse: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Purse, purse: Dictionary.com
  14. purse (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. purse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Purse (horse racing), Purse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Purse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. purse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. purse: Rhymezone
  20. purse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. purse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Purse: American-Britih Dictionary
  23. purse: FreeDictionary.org
  24. purse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. purse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. purse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. purse: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Purse: Easton Bible
  2. Purse: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purse, purse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Purse: Sports Definitions

(Note: See pursed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small bag for carrying money.
noun:  (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
noun:  A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
noun:  (historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
verb:  (transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
verb:  To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
verb:  To put into a purse.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
noun:  A surname from Middle English.

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