portable

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English portable, from Middle French portable and Latin portābilis. By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -able.

As far as it goes, it’s property and portable. — Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
He is aware also that much in detail will be desired and eagerly sought after, which the portable and limited size of this little work could not contain; but such information may be found in the larger works, by Hall, Flint, Darby, Schoolcraft, Long, and other authors and travellers. — A New Guide for Emigrants to the West, John Mason Peck
THE BABY'S OWN ÆSOP Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme with Portable Morals Pictorially Pointed by WALTER CRANE Engraved & Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans London Frederick Warne and Co. and New York PREFACE For this rhymed version of the Fables I have to thank my early friend and master W.J. — The Baby's Own Aesop, Aesop

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