luggage

nouncommon in dialogue

United States//ˈlʌɡ.ɪdʒ//
India//ləˈɡeːdʒ//
India//ˈləɡ.ɡeːdʒ//

The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.

noun

1
The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.
August 4, 1726, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey.
2
The contents of such containers.
3
obsoleteA specific bag or container holding a traveller's belongings.
I assisted some time ago in cutting up a tree, that made tolerably good turns or luggage for nineteen or twenty persons, which could be procured for about two dollars at the stump.
The passengers injured who could not get out were removed out by the railway staff, and then taking part of the luggage the train started back for Burdwan.
Namely, leaving my luggages at the Government hostel, to go straight out by taxi (oh, so slow, compared with our sleek Lagos limousines!) to the famous central Piccadilly Tube station where I took a onestop ticket, went down on the escalator, and then ran up the same steps in the wrong direction.

Etymology

1590s, lug (“to drag”) + -age, literally “that which is lugged, dragged around”. Compare baggage.

Forms

plural: luggages

ludicrous · Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny;…Ludwig · A male given name from German.lug · The act of hauling or dragging.

luggage · The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.

Lui · A surname from Chinese.Luigi · A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Louis.Luis · A male given name from Spanish.

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