luggage

[luhg-ij]

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noun

suitcases, trunks, etc.; baggage.

Origin of luggage

First recorded in 1590–1600; lug¹ + -age

Related formslug·gage·less, adjective

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Related Words for luggage

baggage, paraphernalia, gear, trunk, case, impedimenta, valise, things, carry-on

Examples from the Web for luggage

Contemporary Examples of luggage

And when they did stop him and look in his luggage what did they find?
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Christopher Dickey
September 9, 2014
Luggage spilled into the aisle as the bus pulled out of the station.
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Ted Phillips
September 8, 2014
A Moomin shop in London sells Little My t-shirts, plush Moomintrolls, Snufkin luggage tags.
Tove Jansson, Queen of the Moomins
John Garth
August 9, 2014
Last year, U.S. airlines bagged over 3.5 billion dollars in luggage fees.
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Brandon Presser
June 4, 2014
Customs and Border Protection airing the dirty laundry in our luggage.
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P. J. O’Rourke
April 27, 2014

Historical Examples of luggage

Get this gentleman's luggage, and bring it to that hansom there.
The Foolish Lovers
St. John G. Ervine
Suppose she has to pay excess on her luggage, or to wrangle about contraband?
The Incomplete Amorist
E. Nesbit
Mr. Channing had actually gone himself to see after the luggage.
The Channings
Mrs. Henry Wood
The place to which the luggage is to go is printed on this card.
Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens
"I have omnibuses and carts for them and their luggage," were the first words that Roden spoke.
Roden's Corner
Henry Seton Merriman

British Dictionary definitions for luggage

luggage

noun

suitcases, trunks, etc, containing personal belongings for a journey; baggage

Word Origin for luggage

C16: perhaps from lug 1, influenced in form by baggage

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Word Origin and History for luggage

1590s, from lug (v.) "to drag" + -age; so, literally "what has to be lugged about" (or, in Johnson's definition, "any thing of more weight than value"). In 20c., the usual word for "baggage belonging to passengers."