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folderful

folderful noun: all of the documents, papers, notes, etc. that are contained in a folder.

Noun

folderful (plural folderfuls or foldersful)

  1. All of the documents, papers, notes, etc. that are contained in a folder.
    • Ben Gordon slid the folderful of pamphlets on the Philosopher's Stone across his desk to Josef.1980, Robert Taylor, Burchenal Green, Tales of the marvelous machine: 35 stories of computing, page 208
    • Each of Shearson's business units generates a folderful of documentation a day: hundreds of journal entries, order tickets, wire transfers, cash sheets and other items.1990, Datamation - Volume 36, Issues 1-8, page 61
  2. All of the electronic files contained in a folder or directory.
    • Control Panel provides a folderful of essential property sheets and helpful wizards.1995, Craig Stinson, Running Microsoft Windows 95
    • This Mac OS X capability to open a folderful of documents when a folder is selected in an Open dialog can be pretty scary when, from years of habit, you select a folder and hit the Open button to open the folder to look inside, and—whoops!2006, Sharon Zardetto Aker, Real World Mac OS X Fonts, →ISBN

Forms of folderful

pluralfolderfuls
pluralfoldersful

Origin of folderful

From folder + -ful.

Questions about folderful

What does folderful mean?
Folderful means all of the documents, papers, notes, etc. that are contained in a folder.
What part of speech is folderful?
Folderful is a noun.
What is the plural of folderful?
The plural of folderful is folderfuls.

Words near folderful in the dictionary

  1. foldedness
  2. folden
  3. Foldens
  4. folder
  5. folderal
  6. folderful
  7. folderfuls
  8. folderless
  9. folderlike
  10. folderol
  11. folderols

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