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bolsa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bag noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
  • exchange noun An act of exchanging or trading.
  • handbag noun A small bag, usually carried by women, used to hold personal items such as a wallet, keys, and makeup.
  • pocket noun A small fabric pouch sewn into clothing for carrying small items.
  • pouch noun A small bag, often closed with a drawstring or zipper.
  • purse noun A small bag used for carrying money and personal items, especially by women.
  • sack noun A large bag, typically of coarse material, used for carrying or storing bulk goods.

Senses

bolsa is used for these senses in English:

  • bag A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
  • bag (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
  • exchange A place for conducting trading.
  • handbag (now, rare) A small bag carried in the hand, used either when travelling or to carry tools for a specific job. [from 19th c.]
  • pocket (clothing) A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
  • pocket An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
  • pouch A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  • purse (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)

bag — full definition

  1. noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
  2. verb To put something into a bag, or more broadly, to succeed in getting or catching something.

exchange — full definition

  1. noun An act of exchanging or trading.
  2. noun A place for conducting trading.
  3. noun Ellipsis of telephone exchange.
  4. noun A central office.

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