Valise

Definition: Valise

Valise

Noun

1. A small overnight bag for short trips.

Date "valise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Valise \Va*lise"\, noun. [French expression valise; compare to Italian expression valigia, Spanish balija, Late Latin expression valisia, valesia; of uncertain origin, perhaps through (assumed) late Latin vidulitia, from the Latin expression vidulus leathern trunk; knapsack.]. (Websters 1913)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
VALISE	English	Value Added Info Structure for Europe	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Receptacle	Chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Valise

Specialty definitions using "valise": Valis'e. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Valise" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (bag, case, grip, luggage, suitcase, valise), Portuguese (suitcase, valise).

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

La Valise (1973)

L' Homme � la valise (1983)

La Petite valise (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	La valise a l'eau, ou, Le voyage en Alger : roman (reference) La valise en carton (reference) Manuscrit trouvé dans une valise : CINÉMA (reference) Marcel Duchamp: The Box in a Valise (reference) Quoi Mettre Dans Sa Valise (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He put this valise in a chair near his bed, and always kept the key of it in his pocket.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Valise" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Valise" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	93.75%	15	90,616
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	6.25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	16	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "valise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		çantë ushtarake (kit bag), çantë udhëtimi (handbag, holdall, portmanteau). (various references)

Arabic		‏حقيبة سفر (grip, suitcase, wallet), ‏حقيبة (bag, briefcase, carrier bag, case, handbag, mail). (various references)

Bavarian		kufan (suitcase). (various references)

Bulgarian		куфарче (grip, gripsack), войнишка раница (kit, kitbag, pack), войнишка торба (holdall, kit, kitbag, pack), пътна чанта. (various references)

Chinese		提包 (bag, handbag). (various references)

Czech		taška (bag, carrier bag). (various references)

Danish		håndkuffert (suitcase). (various references)

Dutch		valies (suitcase, suit-case), koffer (coffer, suitcase, suit-case, trunk), handkoffer (suitcase). (various references)

Esperanto		valizo (suitcase). (various references)

Faeroese		kuffert (suitcase, trunk), klæðsekkur (suitcase). (various references)

Farsi		چمدان (Baggage, Kist, Suitcase), کیف (Bag, Jollity, Kef, Pleasure, Revel), کیسه چرمی , خورجین (Bag, Cantina, Kyack), جامه دان (Luggage). (various references)

French		valise. (various references)

German		Reisetasche (bag, carpet bag, carpetbag, hold all, holdall, overnight bag, traveling bag, travelling bag), kleiner Handkoffer. (various references)

Greek		βαλίτσα (case, grip, portmanteau, satchel, suitcase, suit-case). (various references)

Hebrew		מזו�"�" (bag, portmanteau, suitcase, trunk). (various references)

Hungarian		kézitáska (grip, gripsack, hand bag, handbag, pouch). (various references)

Italian		valigia (bag, case, chest, portmanteau, suitcase, suit-case). (various references)

Malay		kopor (suitcase). (various references)

Manx		valeese, kishtey troailtys. (various references)

Papiamen		falis (suitcase). (various references)

Pig Latin		alisevay.(various references)

Polish		walizka (suitcase). (various references)

Portuguese		valise (suitcase), pequena mala de viagem, mochila de soldado, maleta (bag, handbag, kit, portrait, suitcase, suit-case), malademão (suitcase). (various references)

Romanian		geamantan (portmanteau, suit case, suitcase, trunk). (various references)

Russian		саквояж (carpetbag, grip, gripsack, handbag, kit bag), чемодан (bag, portmanteaux, suitcase, trunk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mali kofer. (various references)

Spanish		maleta de mano (suitcase), maleta (baggage, case, ham, portmanteau, suitcase, suit-case, take, trunk). (various references)

Swedish		liten resväska. (various references)

Turkish		valiz (case, suitcase), bavul (hold all, suitcase, trunk). (various references)

Ukranian		саквояж (carpetbag, handbag), ранець (backpack, bag, kitbag, knapsack, satchel). (various references)

Vietnamese		va li nhỏ, ba lô (knapsack). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "valise": valises. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Valise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alize, avaline, Avildsen, balise, Evalie, Kailzee, malise, Vaelaes, vails, vaise, valaz, valeie, valic, valice, valide, valige, valine, valis, valisa, vallies, valos, Vanlose, Vasilev, venise, vilie, vilis, Vlasi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: silvae.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-s-v"
	-1 letter: aisle, alive, evils, laves, lives, salve, selva, silva, slave, vails, vales, valse, veals, veils, vials.
	-2 letters: ails, ales, aves, evil, ilea, isle, lase, lave, lavs, leas, leis, leva, lies, live, sail, sale, save, seal, sial, vail, vale, vase, veal, veil, vela, vial, vies, vile, visa, vise.
	-3 letters: ail, ais, ale, als, ave, els, las, lav, lea, lei, lev, lie, lis, sae, sal, sea, sei, sel, vas, via, vie, vis.
	-4 letters: ae, ai, al, as, el, es, is, la, li, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-s-v"
	+1 letter: alevins, devisal, estival, glaives, revisal, valines, valises, vesical.
	+2 letters: aestival, alewives, allusive, bivalves, cavilers, claviers, devisals, disvalue, elatives, festival, flavines, javelins, lavished, lavisher, lavishes, leaviest, leavings, misvalue, plausive, prevails, ravelins, reavails, revisals, revivals, salivate, shrieval, sleaving, valorise, varioles, vaselike, vealiest, vedalias, ventails, vesicula, vilayets, villages, violates, virelais, virelays, visceral, vitalise, vocalise.
	+3 letters: ablatives, abusively, advisable, advisedly, aliveness, almsgiver, aventails, bivalents, bloviates, bolivares, calvaries, cavaliers, cavallies, cavalries, cavillers, clavicles, deprivals, devisable, disvalued, disvalues, dovetails, eluviates, enslaving, evasively, festivals, galvanise, halflives, illatives, intervals, javelinas, kalewives, lavaliers, lavishers, lavishest, lawgivers, laxatives, levigates, levirates, levitates, lifesaver, livetraps, locatives, massively, medievals, misvalued, misvalues, movieolas, ovalities, ovarioles, passively, ravelings, relatives, reviewals, revisable, rivalries, salivated, salivates, shaveling, shavetail, slaveries, slavering, suasively, sylvanite, trivalves, univalves, universal, valencias, valencies, valerians, valiances, validates, valkyries, valorised, valorises, valorizes, vandalise, variables, varietals, vaultiest, velarizes, verbalism, verbalist, versatile, versional, verticals, vesiculae, vesicular, vestigial, vigesimal, villagers, violaters, visitable, visualise, visualize, vitalised, vitalises, vitalizes, vocalised, vocalises, vocalizes, volatiles, vulcanise, vulgarise.
	+4 letters: abrasively, absolutive, adhesively, adverbials, afterlives, alleviates, allusively, almsgivers, antinovels, assaultive, aversively, calmatives, canvaslike, chevaliers, chivalries, clavierist, cultivates, daredevils, elevations, evangelism, evangelist, galvanised, galvanises, galvanizes, gavelkinds, immovables, insolvable, intervales, invasively, investable, jovialties, larvicides, lavalieres, lavatories, lavishness, leavenings, leviathans, lifesavers, lifesaving, lixiviates, mediaevals, olivaceous, overclaims, overlavish, overplaids, ravellings, relativism, relativist, reprievals, retrievals, revictuals, revitalise, revivalism, revivalist, shavelings, shavetails, shinleaves, shrievalty, silverback, silverware, simulative, starveling, survivable, sylvanites, televisual, trivialise, univalents, universals, vacillates, vagilities, valentines, valiancies, validities, vandalised, vandalises, vandalizes, varicellas, varletries, venalities, venialness, ventilates, verapamils, verbalisms, verbalists, verbalizes, vernalizes, versicular, vesiculate, vestibular, victualers, videolands, vigilances, vigilantes, villainess, villainies, villenages, violaceous, viscerally, visualised, visualises, visualized, visualizer, visualizes, vitalities, vocalities, vocalizers, volatilise, vulcanised, vulcanises, vulcanizes, vulgarised, vulgarises, vulgarizes.
	+5 letters: acclivities, adversarial, alivenesses, alleviators, antislavery, assertively, avicultures, cantilevers, caressively, causatively, cavalierism, clavierists, coevalities, copulatives, covalencies, devitalizes, devocalizes, devotionals, disavowable, disprovable, dissolvable, eigenvalues, eluviations, equivalents, evaluations, evangelisms, evangelists, evangelizes, everlasting, expansively, galvanizers, heavenliest, impassively, inadvisable, interleaves, invalidates, invariables, invigilates, inviolacies, jovialities, labiovelars, lavallieres, legislative, levigations, levitations, lifesavings, livableness, lovemakings, medievalism, medievalist, misevaluate, novaculites, oversalting, palliatives, pervasively, previsional, receivables, relativisms, relativists, relativizes, relevancies, revalidates, revalorizes, revelations, reversional, revitalised, revitalises, revitalizes, revivalisms, revivalists, serviceable, serviceably, severalties, silverbacks, silverwares, slavishness, speculative, sporulative, starvelings, stimulative, subinterval, subvocalize, superlative, surveillant, translative, trivialised, trivialises, trivializes, unadvisedly, universally, vainglories, valiantness, varicoceles, vaudevilles, ventilators, veraciously, verbalistic, verbalizers, verisimilar, versatilely, versatility, vesiculated, vesiculates, vestigially, vexatiously, viabilities, vibratoless, victuallers, villageries, villanelles, vinblastine, visualizers, volatilised, volatilises, volatilizes, voluntaries, vorticellas, vulcanisate, vulcanizers, vulgarities, vulgarizers, vulneraries.
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