Thesaurus results for PORTMANTEAU

portmanteau

noun

pȯrt-ˈman-(ˌ)tō

as in suitcase

a bag carried by hand and designed to hold a traveler's clothing and personal articles carried her possessions with her in an old portmanteau

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Recent Examples of portmanteau Her business name is a portmanteau of her name and his, and her logo features a puzzle piece, a nod to Skyler’s autism. —

Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 24 Feb. 2026 Alysa Liu is half-Chinese and half-white, colloquially known as Wasian (the word comes from a portmanteau of white and Asian). —

Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 23 Feb. 2026 Its name is a portmanteau of their two cultures, Yemeni and Mexican. —

Aviva Bechky, Houston Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2026 Those are just a few of the clever software-as-a-service portmanteaus being tossed around as investors debate a massive selloff in the sector that has vaporized roughly $1 trillion in valuations from recent highs, with more than $285 billion in market value wiped out in February alone. —

Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for portmanteau

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Travelers end up dragging coats through museums or try to shove them into already full suitcases before a train transfer.

— Chantelle Kincy, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2026
In July 2025, choreographer Christopher Grant and dancer Diandre Blue filed a police report after the trunk window was damaged on their rental car and two suitcases were missing.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026