baggage

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 

View all »
Definitions (17)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (5)

  1. noun The trunks, bags, parcels, and suitcases in which one carries one's belongings while traveling; luggage.
  2. noun The movable equipment and supplies of an army.
  3. noun Superfluous or burdensome practices, regulations, ideas, or traits.
2 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (8)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (3)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples

  • Amongst the baggage was also a cabinet in which were a number of medallions, given him by the Pope and other potentates, some letters of Louis XVIII. which he had left behind him on his writing-table in the suddenness of his flight from the Tuileries on the 20th of March, and a number of other letters found in the portfolio of Dia Blacas intended to calumniate Napoleon. —  The Memoirs of Napoleon
  • The pilot, who called on an unsecured phone, advised that his baggage was already on board. —  Haven
  • The second carton in her baggage was a Portal Generator, a special device that could open a portal to any plane in the multiverse. —  Nemesis
  • His profit had been good too. —  Noble House
  • He left her standing alone in her driveway. —  Haven
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

Baggage has been looked up 340 times, favorited 0 times, listed 19 times, and commented on once.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

luggage ·  ammunition ·  freight ·  cargo ·  merchandise ·  belongings ·  furniture ·  artillery ·  equipment ·  gear ·  provision ·  mail
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English bagage, from Old French bague, bundle, perhaps of Germanic origin. Sense 4, perhaps from French bagasse, from Provençal bagassa, ultimately from Arabic baġīy, prostitute, from baġā, to fornicate; see bġy in Semitic roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Middle English baggage, bagage, from Old French bagage, baggage, especially of an army, also the baggage-train, including the attendants, modern F. bagage, baggage (= Provencal bagatge = Spanish bagage, baggage, especially of an army, a beast of burden, formerly also refuse, lumber, trash, = Portuguese bagagem, baggage, carriage; cf. Italian bagaglia, bagaglie, baggage), from Old French baguer, tie up, pack up, truss up (modern F. baguer, baste), from bague, a bundle, pack, usually in plural bagues, baggage, belongings: see bag and -age. Cf. baggage.
  2. Prob. a particular use of baggage in sense 3; but the form and sense agree closely with F. bagasse, strumpet, also bajasse, baiasse = Provencal baguassa, prob. from Spanish bagasa (obsolete) = Portuguese bagaxa = Italian bagascia, a strumpet; of uncertain origin; associated with, and perhaps a particular use of, Old French bagasse, Spanish bagazo, etc., refuse, trash, which is, again, prob. a variant (in Spanish) of bagage, baggage: see baggage and bagasse. But there are indications of two or more independent sources.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈbægədʒ/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a week.

Recent Lookups

shove · horse-flesh · dominate · apropos · Capitalism

Recent Favorites

doxastic · bissextile day · airship · cloud-shadows · ombrophobous

Recent Pronunciations

milosrdenstvi · lichen-covered · futon · sagacity · monoragngocious