Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "purse" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

department store hand handbag hanging on woman's shoulder home house pocket robber's cache store woman's room women's accessory store

Capable Of

hold cosmetics hold money store money

Derived Terms

Privy Purse Sutton Hoo purse-lid beggar's purse belt purse change purse coin purse common purse cut one's cloth to suit one's purse cut-purse cutpurse devil's purse dispurse empty as a pauper's purse finger purse gaming purse hold the purse strings jail purse king's purse lighten someone's purse long purse loosen the purse strings make a silk purse of a sow's ear man purse manpurse mermaid's purse murse pick-purse pickpurse power of the purse prison purse public purse purse crab purse net purse puppy purse seine purse snatcher purse snatching purse string purse-bearer purse-pride purse-proud purseful purseless purselike pursemaker pursemaking purser pursestring purseweb spider pursy sea purse sea-purse shepherd's purse tighten the purse strings unpurse you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear

Etymologically Related To

bursar

Has Part

money

Context

historical us

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

amount amount of money bag container contract round round off round out sum sum of money

Type Of (IsA)

bag baggage gear handbag non powered device small bag carried bgy women sum typically

Manner Of

contract round

Related Terms

bursa bursar bursary reimburse wallet

Related Terms

bag bursa change change container container female female wallet girl girl things handbag holding holding bag lady lady wallet money persia piastre pocketbook protrude quantity reimburse rob steal sum toman turkey wallet wallet bag woman woman handbag womans womans bag

Synonym Network

bag bursary coin purse handbag pocketbook pucker

Used For

carry money carry things carry wallet carrying money carrying money and personal identification hitting over head holding cash holding change holding makeup holding personal effects holding stuff put shit in putting money in store checkbook store makeup

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.