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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A container for holding or carrying miscellaneous items, especially a traveling case or bag.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A portable bag or case used in traveling, etc., for holding miscellaneous articles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a capacious bag or basket.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A large bag for carrying things whilst travelling.
  • noun figuratively A book or similar printed work containing a wide variety of information. Compare to omnibus, encyclopedia.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a capacious bag or basket

Etymologies

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From hold +‎ all

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