BAGGAGE CAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baggage car mean? 

• BAGGAGE CAR (noun)
  The noun BAGGAGE CAR has 1 sense:

1. a railway car where passengers' bags are carried

  Familiarity information: BAGGAGE CAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAGGAGE CAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A railway car where passengers' bags are carried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

baggage car; luggage van

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

car; railcar; railroad car; railway car (a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad)

Holonyms ("baggage car" is a member of...):

passenger train (a train that carries passengers)

 Context examples 

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)

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)

But his strength ebbed, his eyes glazed, and he knew nothing when the train was flagged and the two men threw him into the baggage car.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)