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pocketbook

/ˈpɒ.kɪt.bʊk/US/ˈpɑ.kɪtˌbʊk/

pocketbook noun: a purse or handbag.

Noun

pocketbook (plural pocketbooks)

  1. (Northeastern, US) A purse or handbag.
  2. (dated) A wallet for paper money.
  3. (figuratively) One's personal budget or financial capacity; the amount one can afford.
    Synonyms:
    pocket
  4. A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art).
    • The publishers brought out small format pocketbooks of the whole of their nature series.
    • The pocket books are in trouble. A creeping extralegal censorship threatens to bowdlerize the product[…]1955, “The Harassed Pocket-Book Publishers”, in The Antioch Review
    1. (Philippines, broadly) A romance novel published as a small paperback.

pocketbook meaning in Bengali

pocketbook in Bengali

টাকা রাখার ব্যাগ, ছোট মানিব্যাগ

Examples of pocketbook in a sentence

  • "I have now lost", he wrote in his pocketbook, "the last barrier between me and death..."2011, Leslie Stephen, Swift, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 10:
  • Dave recorded the information in his pocketbook and looked Gibbs straight in the eye.2015, Graham Ison, Whispering Grass, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

All 15 example sentences with pocketbook

Synonyms of pocketbook

Forms of pocketbook

pluralpocketbooks
alternative formpocket-book
alternative formpocket book

Plural of pocketbook: pocketbooks

Origin of pocketbook

1610s, from pocket + book, popularized in its sense as a paperback by the success of Pocket Books in the United States after its 1939 launch.

Words formed from pocketbook

Phrases with pocketbook

Questions about pocketbook

What does pocketbook mean?
Pocketbook means a purse or handbag.
What is pocketbook in Bengali?
Pocketbook in Bengali is টাকা রাখার ব্যাগ, ছোট মানিব্যাগ. See Pocketbook meaning in Bengali.
How do you use pocketbook in a sentence?
"I have now lost", he wrote in his pocketbook, "the last barrier between me and death..."
What part of speech is pocketbook?
Pocketbook is a noun.
How do you pronounce pocketbook?
Pocketbook is pronounced /ˈpɒ.kɪt.bʊk/ (UK).
What is the plural of pocketbook?
The plural of pocketbook is pocketbooks.

Words near pocketbook in the dictionary

  1. pocket-watch
  2. pocket-watches
  3. pocketa-queep
  4. pocketability
  5. pocketable
  6. pocketbook
  7. pocketbook issue
  8. pocketbook issues
  9. pocketbooks
  10. pocketed
  11. pocketed up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pocketbook (page history and authors); pocketbook (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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