wallet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small flat case, often made of leather, for carrying money and cards in your pocket.

   The thief stole all the cash from the old man's wallet.

2. 2
   noun

   A digital application for storing money or payment cards electronically.

   She paid for the coffee using the wallet on her phone.

From Middle English walet (“a bag, knapsack”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assumed Old Northern French *walet (“a roll; bag; a knapsack”), from Proto-Germanic *wal- (“to roll”). More at walk, well, wallow.

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