burse
/ˈbɜː(ɹ)s/
burse noun: a purse.
Noun
burse (plural burses)
- A purse.
- Roche stepped forward with a leather burse, announcing that he would pay for both of us.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter IX, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 90
- Try a burse instead – sort of a bag, sort of a purse, inspired by the cases that hold the corporal cloth used in mass, and designed to be carried by men.2021 January 22, The Guardian
- A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies.
- An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use.
- A stock exchange; a bourse.
- A kind of bazaar.
Proper noun capitalized: Burse
Burse (plural Burses)
- A surname from Old French.
burse meaning in Tamil and Bengali
burse in Tamil
- மூட்டுக் குழி
burse in Bengali
- একটি মানিব্যাগ, একটি শেয়ার বাজার, একটি বুর্স, এক ধরনের বাজার
Forms of burse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | burses |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Burses |
Origin of burse
Borrowed from Middle French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare French bourse (“purse, fund”).
Words formed from burse
Words that rhyme with burse
36 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- worse
- -verse
- coerce
- converse
- excurse
- immerse
- multiverse
- obverse
- terce
- terse
- amerce
- asperse
- herse
- neurodiverse
- perse
- reimburse
- transverse
- a blessing and a curse
- absterse
- accurse
- costotransverse
- demerse
- disburse
- Erse
- intertransverse
- megadiverse
- murse
- nontransverse
- pretransverse
- public purse
- recurse
- renverse
- sperse
- submerse
- subtransverse
- thurse
Questions about burse
- What does burse mean?
- Burse means a purse.
- What is burse in Tamil?
- Burse in Tamil is மூட்டுக் குழி. See Burse meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is burse?
- Burse can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce burse?
- Burse is pronounced /ˈbɜː(ɹ)s/.
- What is the plural of burse?
- The plural of burse is burses.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: burse (page history and authors); Burse (page history and authors); burse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); burse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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