BAGGAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baggage mean? 

• BAGGAGE (noun)
  The noun BAGGAGE has 3 senses:

1. cases used to carry belongings when traveling

2. a worthless or immoral woman

3. the portable equipment and supplies of an army

  Familiarity information: BAGGAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAGGAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cases used to carry belongings when traveling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

baggage; luggage

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

case (a portable container for carrying several objects)

Meronyms (parts of "baggage"):

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 "baggage"):

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A worthless or immoral woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The portable equipment and supplies of an army

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

equipage; materiel (equipment and supplies of a military force)

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

impedimenta (the baggage and equipment carried by an army)

 Context examples 

He shall pack out of there with his baggage.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I hired two mules, with a guide, to show me the way, and carry my small baggage.

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

“You, a graceless baggage, a foolish lack-brain, with no thought above the hemming of shifts. And he so kindly and hendy and long-suffering! You would—ha, you may well flee the room!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Under the conditions of their escape it was naturally impossible to bring a large amount of baggage, but they had rescued Professor Summerlee's collections of butterflies and beetles, containing many new species.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All the baggage we took off with him was one tin box.

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

The return trip was made in the baggage car, and so Wolf came a second time to the mountain cottage.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The summer camp was being dismantled, and the tribe, bag and baggage, was preparing to go off to the fall hunting.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Here I am, bag and baggage," she said briskly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He had travelled too often with the Judge not to know the sensation of riding in a baggage car.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

As though I stood in need of their money! I, who could have bought them out, bag and baggage, and the schooner and its equipment, a score of times over!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)