Noun | 1. | ![]() |
2. | purse - a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse; "he made the contribution out of his own purse"; "he and his wife shared a common purse" | |
3. | purse - a small bag for carrying money | |
4. | purse - a sum of money offered as a prize; "the purse barely covered the winner's expenses" | |
Verb | 1. | purse - contract one's lips into a rounded shape |
2. | purse - gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips" Synonyms: wrinkle |
PURSE. In Turkey the sum of five hundred dollars is called a purse. Merch. Dict. h.t.
To dream that you are carrying a purse, signifies secrets which are being closely held and guarded. To dream that you lost your purse, denotes loss of power and control of possessions. It also suggests that you may have lost touch with your real identity.Swiss bank account, abbreviate, and pence, assets, award, bag, balance, bank account, billfold, bottom dollar, bucks, budget, capital, cash, cash reserves, checking account, circumscribe, coarct, cocker, cockle, command of money, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, corrugate, cramp, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crumple, curtail, decrease, dollars, dough, draw, draw in, draw together, exchequer, filthy lucre, finances, fund, funds, furrow, gift, handbag, income, kitty, knit, knot, life savings, lolly, loot, means, money, money belt, money clip, moneys, narrow, nest egg, pecuniary resources, pelf, pocket, pocketbook, poke, pool, porte-monnaie, pouch, pounds, present, prize, pucker, pucker up, purse strings, ready, reduce, reserves, resources, revenue, reward, riches, ridge, rimple, ripple, ruck, ruckle, rumple, savings, savings account, scratch, shekels, shillings, shirr, shorten, solidify, strangle, strangulate, substance, treasure, treasury, unregistered bank account, wallet, wealth, wherewithal, wimple, wrinkle