LUGGAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does luggage mean? 

• LUGGAGE (noun)
  The noun LUGGAGE has 1 sense:

1. cases used to carry belongings when traveling

  Familiarity information: LUGGAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUGGAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cases used to carry belongings when traveling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

baggage; luggage

Hypernyms ("luggage" is a kind of...):

case (a portable container for carrying several objects)

Meronyms (parts of "luggage"):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

strap (an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "luggage"):

bag; grip; suitcase; traveling bag; travelling bag (a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes)

dressing case (a small piece of luggage for carrying brushes and bottles and toilet articles while traveling)

hand luggage (luggage that is light enough to be carried by hand)

hatbox (a round piece of luggage for carrying hats)

imperial (a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach)

satchel (luggage consisting of a small case with a flat bottom and (usually) a shoulder strap)

trunk (luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage)

Derivation:

lug (carry with difficulty)

 Context examples 

My journey is all mapped out, and my luggage ready.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"This will be your luggage, I suppose?" said the man rather abruptly when he saw me, pointing to my trunk in the passage.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Glancing round as I made a suitable reply, I observed that the family effects were already packed, and that the amount of luggage was by no means overwhelming.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I saw the wheel-tracks in the light of the gate-lamp, but where does the luggage come in?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had no other company but a boy of the house, who rode after us with the luggage.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Unpack directly into your washing machine after a trip and check your luggage carefully.

(Bedbugs, Environmental Protection Agency)

"It's like finding a better arrangement of shoes in your luggage — the ice molecules become packed together more tightly," said Vance.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

Try not to have to change planes to get to your final destination because that is when luggage has a higher than usual chance of getting lost or delayed.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Save for Challenger's luggage we had never a difficulty.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Through the open door he could catch glimpses of the luggage on the floor.

(White Fang, by Jack London)