packet

Speech parts

1. packet - Noun

2. packet - Verb

Meaning

A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.

Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.

To make up into a packet or bundle.

To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

package bundle parcel packet boat mailboat mail boat hod bale sac WAD sheaf big money pocketful case ship

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Antonyms

tang kitty muff cooter empty cookie

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Hypernyms

collection message boat package accumulation parcel

Hyponyms

deck wisp

Phrases with the word

packet tracer packet of cigarettes back-of-the-fag-packet worth a packet make a packet cheese in a packet

Derivatives

packeted packeting

Anagrams

Ptacek

Examples

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes. Katharine Whitehorn

Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it. Noël Coward

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet. Billy Connolly

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. John Updike

I used to suck [Smarties] until they were all white, let them dry, and then put them back in the packet and show my mum the Smarties with no colour on them. Noel Fielding

Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives. Joseph Heller

Close letter words and terms

Packera aurea Packera plattensis packery packet boat packet of cigarettes packet of fags