baggage
Syllables: bag·gage/ˈbæɡɪd͡ʒ/
baggage noun: portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling.
Noun
baggage (usually uncountable, plural baggages)
- Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling
- Please put your baggage in the trunk.
- As soon as they had determined on their course, Ya-nei slid under the bed, and made himself a place among the baggages.1929, Charles Georges Souli, Eastern Shame Girl
- Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.
- This person has got a lot of emotional baggage.
- […]How much shall I honour one, who has a stronger propensity to poetry, and has got a greater name in it, if he performs his promise to me of putting away these idle baggages after his sacred espousal.1846, Henry Francis Cary, Lives of the English Poets
- A woman. A female, especially one who is saucy, impudent.
- "Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday, Or never after look me in the face. Speak not; reply not; do not answer me."1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages) felt for their master--pitied their poor master!1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, No. 288
- Synonyms:
- disreputable, naughty
- An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.
- Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and baggages, to Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross.1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia
- In Poland, for example, the unknown Bolesław Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a ‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.2007, Norman Davies, No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945, New York: Penguin, page 305
baggage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
baggage in Hindi
- baggage
- वस्तु vastu
baggage in Tamil
- மூட்டை, பயண மூட்டை முடிச்சுக்கள், பயனற்ற பெண், துடுக்கு நடைச் சிறுமி
baggage in Marathi
- बॅगेज
baggage in Urdu
- baggage
- وستو vastu
More languagesFewer languages
- baggage in Bengali
- ল্যাগেজ, যাত্রীদের মালপত্র, অতীতের অপ্রীতিকর অভিজ্ঞতা
- baggage in Malayalam
- ഭാണ്ഡക്കെട്ട്
- baggage in Kannada
- ಗಂಟುಮೂಟೆ
Examples of baggage in a sentence
- Alone, she clings to her baggages on the street.1991 September 20, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective”, in Chicago Reader:
- Flynn was so flawed, team Trump was repeatedly warned about his baggage by both then acting AG Sally Yates and President Obama, and even as reported this week, General Flynn himself!2017 May 21, “Stupid Watergate”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 13, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
- "For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector.2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 41:
- But he had a roving eye and a joyous temperament; and though he loved me better than any of the baggages to whom he paid court, he would not visit me so often as he should.1897, Charles Whibley, A Book of Scoundrels:
Synonyms of baggage
Forms of baggage
| plural | baggages |
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Origin of baggage
From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, baguage, from bague (“bundle, sack”), of Germanic/North Germanic origin, probably from the same ultimate source as Old Norse baggi (“pack, bundle”). Compare also bag. By surface analysis, bag + -age. The old meaning of "nasty woman" likely derives from the sense of "something awkward to be carried" (compare faggot).
Words formed from baggage
- bag and baggage
- baggage agent
- baggage car
- baggage carousel
- baggage cart
- baggage check
- baggage claim
- baggage drop
- baggage handler
- baggage hold
- baggageless
- baggageman
- baggagemaster
- baggager
- baggage reclaim
- baggage scanner
- baggage-smasher
- baggage train
- baggage van
- blind baggage
- carry-on baggage
- checked baggage
- excess baggage
- hold baggage
- overhead baggage compartment
- oversized baggage
- way-baggage
Phrases with baggage
Questions about baggage
- What does baggage mean?
- Baggage means portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling.
- What is baggage in Hindi?
- Baggage in Hindi is वस्तु (vastu). See Baggage meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use baggage in a sentence?
- Alone, she clings to her baggages on the street.
- What part of speech is baggage?
- Baggage is a noun.
- How do you pronounce baggage?
- Baggage is pronounced /ˈbæɡɪd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of baggage?
- The plural of baggage is baggages.
Words near baggage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: baggage (page history and authors); वस्तु (Hindi) (page history and authors); baggage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); baggage (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); وستو (Urdu) (page history and authors); baggage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); baggage (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); baggage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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