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Meaning of "pocket-handkerchief" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF

pocket-handkerchief  [ˌpɒkɪtˈhæŋkətʃɪf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pocket-Handkerchief is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pocket-handkerchief in the English dictionary

The definition of pocket-handkerchief in the dictionary is a handkerchief that is carried in a pocket.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF


handkerchief
ˈhæŋkətʃɪf
kerchief
ˈkɜːtʃɪf
mischief
ˈmɪstʃɪf
neckerchief
ˈnɛkətʃɪf
Schiff
ʃɪf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF

pocket battleship
pocket billiards
pocket borough
pocket calculator
pocket dictionary
pocket drive
pocket gopher
pocket money
pocket mouse
pocket veto
pocket-size
pocket-sized
pocketable
pocketbike
pocketbook
pocketer
pocketful
pocketknife
pocketknives
pocketless

WORDS THAT END LIKE POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF

big Chief
big White Chief
car thief
chief
commander in chief
commander-in-chief
commanders in chief
editor in chief
editor-in-chief
examination-in-chief
examinations-in-chief
examine-in-chief
fire chief
in chief
paper handkerchief
police chief
sneak thief
subchief
tenant-in-chief
thief

Synonyms and antonyms of pocket-handkerchief in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pocket-handkerchief» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF

Find out the translation of pocket-handkerchief to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pocket-handkerchief from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pocket-handkerchief» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

手帕
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pañuelo
570 millions of speakers

English

pocket-handkerchief
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जेब रूमाल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جيب منديل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

носовой платок
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pocket- lenço
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পকেটের রুমাল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mouchoir de poche
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sapu tangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Taschentuch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ポケットハンカチ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

포켓 치프
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Saku-saku
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bỏ túi chiếc khăn tay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாக்கெட் கைக்குட்டை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कप्पा-रुमाल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cep mendili
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fazzoletto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

chusteczka kieszeni
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

носовичок
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

batistă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pocket - μαντήλι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sak- sakdoek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

näsduk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lommetørkleet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pocket-handkerchief

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF»

The term «pocket-handkerchief» is regularly used and occupies the 100.011 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of pocket-handkerchief
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pocket-handkerchief» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pocket-handkerchief» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pocket-handkerchief

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF»

Discover the use of pocket-handkerchief in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pocket-handkerchief and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
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James Fenimore Cooper, 2010
2
The Minerva; Or, Literary, Entertaining, and Scientific ...
THE POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF. Mn. EDITOR,—-lf you think my pockethandkerchief worthy of your notice, it is now at your disposal. A pocket- handkerchief is a pocket companion. What is a young lady without a pocket- handkerchief? She is ...
‎1825
3
Bodies in the Rain
Clyde knew there was a typed piece ofpaper somewhere listingWrigley's personal effects,and among those personal effects was a white pocket handkerchief. It was not necessarily a white pocket handkerchief with apinkstain, butcertainlya ...
Robert Guntrum, 2012
4
Italian conversation-grammar
... col fazzolétto, SUL fazzolétto, the pocket-handkerchief. of the pocket- handkerchief. to the pocket-handkerchief. from or by the pocket-handk. in the pocket-handkerchief. with the pocket-handkerchief. upon the pocket- handkerchief. Di i . Ai .
Levina Buoncuore Urbino, 1869
5
Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and ...
POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF. BT J. F. COOPER, AUTHOR OF " THE RED ROVER, " " LX FEU-FOLLKT," ETC. (Continued rroBSpi^ 102.) OUR LID A, OR THE MOCK MARRIAGE. BT MBS. ASS. •^H When I found myself once more in the ...
George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, 1813
6
Great Expectations
He always carried (Ihave notyet mentioned it, I think) a pocket-handkerchief of rich silkand of imposing proportions, which was of great valueto him in his profession. I have seenhim so terrifya client orawitness by ceremoniously unfolding this ...
Charles Dickens, 2003
7
The Classic American Short Story Megapack (Volume 1): 34 of ...
... James Fenimore Cooper, Sherwood Anderson. think a pocket-handkerchief that is to be looked at and which is not to be used, vulgar.” “Not in Sir Walter Scott's signification, my dear,” answered Julia laughing, “for it is not so very common.
Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, 2013
8
A peep into a prison; or, The inside of Ilchester bastile ...
Ann David, now did you deliver two letters to Mrs. Cox? — I don't recollect 1 have told Mrs. Cox so; I have carried handkerchiefs and children's clothes. Mr. Hunt. — Did you ever deliver a letter or parcel, wrapt up in a pocket-handkerchief ?
Henry Hunt, 1821
9
Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England
In The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904), the eponymous rabbit finds his cousin, Peter, wrapped 'in a red cotton pocket-handkerchief', having lost his clothes while stealing from Mr McGregor's garden. The pair reclaim Peter's clothes then use the  ...
Vivienne Richmond, 2013
10
The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, ...
Besides, who woul ever think of a simple pocket-handkerchief as a gift for a mistress? . But it had a value in his eyes, from having been his mother's. " A pocket-handkerchief is so uncommon an heir-loom, that 'onl some rare endowmeat would ...
‎1818

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pocket-handkerchief is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet
Levit appeared on stage a fashionable young man with close-cropped hair and a fitted, stylish suit with a sharp white pocket-handkerchief that ... «Los Angeles Times, Apr 15»
2
Auckland property: Cashed-up and heading off
... of a home in Auckland would buy a dated two-to-four-bedroom house or unit, with single car garaging set on a "pocket-handkerchief of lawn". «New Zealand Herald, Apr 15»
3
Join us at the first Cambridge Property Exhibition
And do we yearn for the tranquillity of the region's beautiful countryside and pocket-handkerchief villages? Or are we urban beings, thrilling to ... «Cambridge News, Mar 15»

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