Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Containers for a traveler's belongings.
- n. The cases and belongings of a traveler.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Anything to be carried that is cumbersome and heavy.
- n. Baggage; especially, a traveler's baggage.
Wiktionary
- n. The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.
- n. The contents of such containers.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.
WordNet 3.0
- n. cases used to carry belongings when traveling
Etymologies
- 1590s, lug (“drag”) + -age (“(noun)”) – literally “that which is lugged, dragged around”. Duplicate -g- is to clarify pronunciation of the vowel ‘u’ (which is pronounced unchanged from lug). Compare baggage. (Wiktionary)
- Probably lug2 + (bag)gage. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If the customs officer snatches a piece of my luggage, it will in general itself be luggage; if adoring groupies snatch an article of my clothing, it will be clothing; for ˜luggage™ and ˜clothing™ are mass nouns.”
“After you land at Heathrow, and once you get your luggage (if you get your luggage*) you have a number of choices for getting into London.”
“The ship has not yet arrived, but will doubtless be here in a few moments, the bad weather having delayed her; and my luggage is all hurried down to the tender, where I should be sent, too, did I not wail with hunger.”
“Now that carry-on luggage is out of hand the airlines say Don't want to pay to check it?”
“If their service to my carry on luggage is superior, I should be the one deciding if the fee is worth choosing that airline.”
“Just to check regular luggage is $40 a bag or more, and they usually have to weigh less than 50 pounds which is almost impossible.”
“And no, 3 Adults and 3 KIds with multiple pieces of luggage is not the best way to travel on a bus.”
“I read that packing jewelry in checked luggage is not advisable, although I certainly do not have diamonds, rubies, or anything of the sort in my possession.”
“Nongjian Tao, an Arizona State University professor who studies the basic properties of graphene, also foresees graphene-based chemical sensors to detect explosives in luggage and volatile organic compounds in the air.”
The Washington Post: How and Why: Graphene seems valuable for computers, batteries and other uses
“What if Revell had a RedCap take the luggage from a taxi, bring it to the check-in counter, and place it on the scale?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘luggage’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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strange plurals
words with unusual plurals - singular form being the plural form, obsolete formations without 's', etc.
shoon, crocket, crotchet, quare, aëtheogamous, binoculars, antelope, luggage, police, furniture, aircraft, macaroni and 32 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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franky's Words
formitastic, human resources, cocktail, gravatar, tequila, twitter, moloko, gmail, beeb, mp3, cover art, thumbnail and 184 more...
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English
rewarding, wit, landmark, core, soar, drop, plunge, plummet, dive, level off, rocket, peak and 110 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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The Motherland! (God Bless the Queen)
Words that remind me of England, which I miss very much.
snog, nappy, wanker, telly, knickers, crumpet, pants, bum, loo, bollocks, stroppy, whinge and 108 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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flight plan
words that remind me of airline travel
sardines, cramped, squashed, stuffy, odor, crick, boredom, imposition, bureaucracy, incompetent, inefficient, impatient and 25 more...
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Rhymeless.
From wikipedia: "The following is a list of English words without rhymes, i.e. a list of words in the English language which rhyme with no other English words in the sense that they are pronounced ...
almond, angry, angst, anxious, aspirin, bachelor, breadth, bulb, bulbous, calumny, cannabis, caveat and 49 more...
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dickensian
commodious, unaccommodating, curtseyed, conviction, crockery, trousers, obtrusive, irascible, considerable, circumstance, ought, establishment and 53 more...
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Nouns first attested in Shakespeare
summit, scuffle, critic, bandit, mountaineer, savagery, bedroom, radiance, birthplace, pageantry, courtship, ode and 13 more...
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Mass Nouns
From wikipedia: "In English, mass nouns are characterized by the fact that they cannot be directly modified by a numeral without specifying a unit of measurement, and that they cannot combine with ...
advice, blood, cattle, equipment, furniture, grass, information, knowledge, mathematics, meat, money, music and 31 more...
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OM3 Lesson 19
application, interview, gotten, single, hang in there, well-qualified, land, unemployed, employed, drunk, once, taste and 13 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for luggage.
bilby You are not alone. I tender in evidence the 'conductor' on the Eurolines bus service between Verona and Salzburg circa 7 years ago. Dec 30, 2010
milosrdenstvi At times I use this as a count noun: one luggage, two luggages, etc. This is an idiosyncratic usage. Dec 29, 2010