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TRAVELLING BAG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does travelling bag mean?
• TRAVELLING BAG (noun)
The noun TRAVELLING BAG has 1 sense:
1. a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
Familiarity information: TRAVELLING BAG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
bag; grip; suitcase; traveling bag; travelling bag
Context example:
he carried his small bag onto the plane with him
Hypernyms ("travelling bag" is a kind of...):
baggage; luggage (cases used to carry belongings when traveling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "travelling bag"):
carpetbag (traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century)
garment bag (a suitcase that unfolds to be hung up)
gripsack (a small suitcase)
overnight bag; overnight case; overnighter (a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight)
Gladstone; Gladstone bag; portmanteau (a large travelling bag made of stiff leather)
weekender (a small suitcase to carry clothing and accessories for a weekend trip)
Context examples
Nobody talked much, but as the time drew very near and they sat waiting for the carriage, Mrs. March said to the girls, who were all busied about her, one folding her shawl, another smoothing out the strings of her bonnet, a third putting on her overshoes, and a fourth fastening up her travelling bag...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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