Baggage

  • 11baggage — [[t]bæ̱gɪʤ[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT Your baggage consists of the bags that you take with you when you travel. The passengers went through immigration control and collected their baggage. ...excess baggage. Syn: luggage 2) N UNCOUNT: usu with supp You… …

    English dictionary

  • 12baggage —    At the beginning of the seventeenth century it was possible to call a man ‘a baggage’, meaning that he was a worthless fellow, a nuisance. Apart from its luggage sense, the word at that time had also come to mean ‘rubbish’ or ‘refuse’. Applied …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 13baggage — n. 1) (esp. AE) to check; claim one s baggage 2) excess baggage * * * [ bægɪdʒ] claim one s baggage (esp. AE) to check excess baggage …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 14baggage */ — UK [ˈbæɡɪdʒ] / US noun [uncountable] Word forms baggage : singular baggage plural baggages 1) mainly American the suitcases, bags etc in which you carry your possessions when you travel. The usual British word is luggage. 2) informal problems… …

    English dictionary

  • 15baggage — I. noun Etymology: Middle English bagage, from Middle French, from bagues belongings, baggage Date: 15th century 1. suitcases, trunks, and personal belongings of travelers ; luggage 2. transportable equipment especially of a military force 3.… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 16baggage — /bag ij/, n. 1. trunks, suitcases, etc., used in traveling; luggage. 2. the portable equipment of an army. 3. things that encumber one s freedom, progress, development, or adaptability; impediments: intellectual baggage that keeps one from… …

    Universalium

  • 17baggage — noun /ˈbæɡɪdʒ/ a) Luggage; traveling equipment Please put your baggage in the trunk. b) Factors that restrict a persons freedom, often in an intellectual or psychological way Hes got a lot of emotional baggage. Syn: luggage, gear, stuff …

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  • 18baggage — bag|gage [ˈbægıdʒ] n [Date: 1400 1500; : French; Origin: bagage, from Old French bague bundle ] 1.) [U] especially AmE the cases, bags, boxes etc carried by someone who is travelling = ↑luggage ▪ Check your baggage in at the desk. 2.) [U] …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 19baggage — noun 1 (U) especially AmE the cases, bags, boxes, etc carried by someone who is travelling; luggage: Check your baggage in at the desk. 2 (U) informal the beliefs, opinions, and experiences that someone has, which make them think in a particular… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 20baggage —   Ukana, ope ope.    ♦ Baggage car, ka a ukana.    ♦ To carry baggage, hali ukana …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary