handheld meaning

Definition of handheld

1. small and light enough to be operated while you hold it in your hands
   • a hand-held computer

   Synonyms: hand-held

handheld in a sentence

• Those old handheld consoles can take a beating.
• A burrito is a handheld meal.
• It's wild how we have handheld devices more powerful than the room-sized computers of the past.
• Tom had some kind of handheld device in his hand.

How to pronounce handheld

handheld is pronounced /ˈhændhɛld/ in British English and /ˈhændhɛld/ in American English. It has 2 syllables, with the stress on the first syllable.

Words that rhyme with handheld

• weld
• yelled
• swelled
• impelled
• meld
• jelled
• quelled
• shelled