pocketbook.
A purse or handbag.
Meaning & usage
A purse or handbag.
A wallet for paper money.
One's personal budget or financial capacity; the amount one can afford.
A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art).
The publishers brought out small format pocketbooks of the whole of their nature series.
A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art). A romance novel published as a small paperback.
Where this word comes from
1610s, from pocket + book, popularized in its sense as a paperback by the success of Pocket Books in the United States after its 1939 launch.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.