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Synonyms of the word 
PURSE → AMOUNT - BAG - CONTAINER - CONTRACT - HANDBAG - POCKETBOOK - ROUND - SUM - WRINKLEpurse- n. A small bag for carrying money.
- n. (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items).
- n. A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
- n. (historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans…
- v. (transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
- v. To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
- v. To put into a purse.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
amount- n. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard…
- n. A quantity or volume.
- n. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
- v. (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
- v. (intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.
bag- n. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
- n. (informal) A handbag.
- n. A suitcase.
- n. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
- n. One’s preference.
- n. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- n. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- n. (baseball) First, second, or third base.
- n. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure…
- n. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be…
- n. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- n. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
- n. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- n. (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
- n. (Britain) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- v. To put into a bag.
- v. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- v. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- v. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
- v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
- v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- v. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
- v. (medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell or hang down like a full bag.
- v. To hang like an empty bag.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.
container- n. Someone who contains; something that contains.
- n. An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
- n. A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods (also cargo container).
- n. (by extension) someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
- n. (computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.
- n. (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
- n. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
contract- n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
- n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
- n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
- n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
- n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
- adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
- adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
- v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
- v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
- v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
- v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
- v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
- v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
- v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- v. To betroth; to affiance.
handbag- n. (mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal…
- n. (uncountable) An anthemic subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
- v. (Britain, transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to…
pocketbook- n. (US) A woman's purse.
- n. (figuratively) One's personal budget or economic capacity - the amount one can afford.
- n. (rare) A small book, especially one that can fit in a pocket; a paperback; also a pocket book.
- n. (Britain) A notebook that is small enough to fit in a pocket.
round- adj. (physical) Shape.
- adj. Complete, whole, not lacking.
- adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- adj. (linguistics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
- adj. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
- adj. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- adj. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
- adj. Large in magnitude.
- n. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- n. A circular or repetitious route.
- n. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- n. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- n. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- n. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- n. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
- n. (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- n. A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical…
- n. (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing…
- n. (sports) A stage in a competition.
- n. (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- n. (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for…
- n. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary,…
- n. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
- n. (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
- n. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- n. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance;…
- n. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated…
- n. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- n. A circular dance.
- n. Rotation, as in office; succession.
- n. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- n. An assembly; a group; a circle.
- n. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- n. (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
- n. (nautical) A round-top.
- n. A round of beef.
- prep. (rare in US) Alternative form of around.
- adv. Alternative form of around.
- v. (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
- v. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
- v. (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
- v. (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
- v. (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
- v. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- v. (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
- v. (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
- v. To encircle; to encompass.
- v. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
- v. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak…
- v. (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter…
- n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
- n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.
sum- n. A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
- n. (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily…
- n. A quantity of money.
- n. A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.
- n. A central idea or point.
- n. The utmost degree.
- n. (obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
- v. (transitive) To add together.
- v. (transitive) To give a summary of.
- n. The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- n. The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- pron. (African American Vernacular) Eye dialect spelling of some.
wrinkle- n. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
- n. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
- n. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed…
- n. (dated) A notion or fancy; a whim.
- v. (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
- v. (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
- v. (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).
- n. (US, dialect) A winkle.
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