Crossword-Solution: PURSE 5 letters, 141 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Purse	n.	A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie.
Purse	n.	Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.
Purse	n.	A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.
Purse	n.	A specific sum of money
Purse	n.	In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
Purse	n.	In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
Purse	v. t.	To put into a purse.
Purse	v. t.	To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
Purse	v. i.	To steal purses; to rob.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PURSE	anagram	PEURS, REUPS, SPRUE, SRUPE, SUPER, SUPRE

We have 141 clues for the answer “PURSE”

Clue	Answers
"Big A" prize	1 answer
"Who steals my ___ steals trash": Iago	1 answer
A place for change	1 answer
Women’s accessory for carrying money	1 answer
Aretha Franklin always carried hers on stage	1 answer
Bag for money	1 answer
Bag or tote	1 answer
Bag with strings.	1 answer
Bout prize	1 answer
Boxer's earnings	1 answer
Boxer's prize money	1 answer
Catch-all for some	1 answer
Champion's winnings	1 answer
Championship prize money	1 answer
Clutch bag.	1 answer
Coach purchase, perhaps	1 answer
Competitor's share	1 answer
Compress (lips)	1 answer
Container with straps	1 answer
Prize or fund to be competed for	1 answer
Evening bag, e.g.	1 answer
Every woman's accessory.	1 answer
Feminine accessory	1 answer
Fendi offering	1 answer
Holder of keys, phone and IDs	1 answer
Horse-race prize	1 answer
Iago's "trash"	1 answer
It comes with a title	1 answer
It may come with strings attached	1 answer
It might have a section for quarters	1 answer
Kentucky Derby item.	1 answer
Kind of snatcher	1 answer
Kind of strings	1 answer
Monetary award	1 answer
Money from a match	1 answer
Money offered as a prize.	1 answer
Money pouch	1 answer
Place for a phone, wallet and keys	1 answer
Place for a wallet and a lip balm	1 answer
Place for lipstick	1 answer
Place for lipstick or Mace	1 answer
Place to keep Mace	1 answer
Place to keep lipstick or a wallet	1 answer
Place to keep pads	1 answer
Power metaphor	1 answer
Prada purchase	1 answer
Preakness prize	1 answer
Prize fund	1 answer
Prize in horse racing	1 answer
Prize of a sort.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RTEEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with PURSE (5)

She took out her purse and was insisting to Boldwood on paying for her tea for herself, when at this moment Pennyways entered the tent.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Her childish extravagance and contempt for all the serious facts of life could be charged to her father’s generosity and his long packing-house purse.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Shut the door and blindfold the doctor tight and fast, and make him swear to be silent as the grave, and put a purse full of gold in his hand, and then take and lead him all around the back alleys and everywheres in the dark, and then fetch him here in the canoe, in a roundabout way amongst the islands, and search him and take his chalk away from him, and don’t give it back to him till you get him back to the village, or else he will chalk this raft so he can find it again.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Nor was it out of keeping with the general coarseness and matter-of-fact character of the age, that the son should be willing to earn an honest penny, or, rather, a weighty amount of sterling pounds, from the purse of his father’s deadly enemy.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

The last ten he told over with much deliberation, pausing, and saying something as he took each piece from the table, and dropt it into his purse.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Quotes with PURSE (3)

Boys are like purses. You're always gonna have that one boy that you're always comfortable with and you know you'll always kind of like. That's your purse that you wear everywhere. Then you have that gorgeous bag that you want everyone to see you with but the gorgeous bag is usually an asshole or costs a lot of money. Then you have those other purses that you really like but you really don't want to be seen with

Lauren Conrad

There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as an outrage to their feelings; as a religious bigot, when charged with disregarding the religious feelings of others, has been known to retort that they disregard his feelings, by persisting in their abominable worship or creed. But there is no parity between the feeling of a person for his own opinion, and the feeling of another who is offended at his holding it…

John Stuart Mill On Liberty

Strange are the ways of God. At times He showers His gifts when we least expect them. Treat each day as an important one; you never know He may have decided to send you a gift through a small child looking for help or an unknown stranger seeking directions to a place or a person unable to pay his coffee bill because his pocket has been picked or a lady on the next table who absent mindedly leaves her purse in the café. Anyone of them could be the carrier of God’s gifts. Be al…

Latika Teotia

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 211 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).