packet
English · Français · Deutsch · 中文 · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
packet
- /ˈpæk.ɪt/ UK
- /ˈpæk.ɪt/ US
- /ˈpæk.ət/
Rhymes with -ækɪt
Where it comes from
From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.
noun packets · pacquet
- A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!
- 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. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia). With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
- A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet. With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what
- A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
- A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.
- A message sent over a transport layer protocol. The Minecraft server accepts connections from TCP clients and communicates with them using packets. A packet is a sequence of bytes sent over the TCP connection.
- A plastic bag. 2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?
-
Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).
A sleeping, silver-haired man, probably about fifty, couldn’t close his legs because of the size of his packet.
Similar: package
- A large amount of money. It'll cost a packet to fix this.
verb packets · packeting · packeted · pacquet
- To make up into a packet or bundle.
- To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. [H]er husband / VVas packetted to France, to ſtudy courtſhip, / Under forſooth a colour of employment, / Employment, yea of honour.
- To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
- To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent. 2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting—tend to be of limite
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: package, bundle, parcel, mailboat, packet boat, mail boat, packaged, packaging, packing, bundling, box, pack, shitload, bag, pouch, kit
Translations
Every language
noun small pack
| Español | paquete, joto |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 패킷 paekit, 소포 sopo, 짐 jim, 꾸러미 kkureomi |
| 日本語 | パケット paketto, 小包 kodzutsumi, 包み tsutsumi |
| 中文 | 包 bāo, 小包 xiǎobāo, 包裹 bāoguǒ |
| हिन्दी | पुड़िया puṛiyā, पैकेट paikeṭ, पुलिंदा pulindā, लिफ़ाफ़ा lifāfā |
| Kiswahili | pakiti |
| Português | pacote |
| Français | paquet |
| Deutsch | Päckchen, Packung |
| Italiano | pacchetto, pacco |
| Ελληνικά | πακέτο pakéto, δέμα déma |
| Română | pachet |
| Русский | паке́т pakét, па́чка páčka |
| Tiếng Việt | gói |
| العربية | حُزْمَة ḥuzma, رَبْطَة rabṭa, رِزْمَة rizma, صُرّة ṣurra, عُلْبَة ʕulba |
| עברית | חֲבִילָה khavilá |
Talk about this word "packet." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/packet. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. packet. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/packet "packet." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/packet.Cite this
@misc{packet_2026,
title = {packet},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/packet},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
