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pocketbooks

pocketbooks is the plural of pocketbook.

Meaning of pocketbook

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.
    1. (Philippines, broadly) A romance novel published as a small paperback.

Questions about pocketbooks

What is pocketbooks the plural of?
Pocketbooks is the plural of pocketbook.

Words near pocketbooks in the dictionary

  1. pocketability
  2. pocketable
  3. pocketbook
  4. pocketbook issue
  5. pocketbook issues
  6. pocketbooks
  7. pocketed
  8. pocketed up
  9. pocketer
  10. pocketers
  11. pocketful

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