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luggage - 4 dictionary results

lug⋅gage

[luhg-ij]
–noun
suitcases, trunks, etc.; baggage.

Origin:
1590–1600; lug 1 + -age


lug⋅gage⋅less, adjective
lug·gage   (lŭg'ĭj)   
n.  
  1. Containers for a traveler's belongings.
  2. The cases and belongings of a traveler.

[Probably lug2 + (bag)gage.]

Luggage

Lug"gage\, n. [From 4th Lug.] That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.

I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey. --Swift.

What do you mean, To dote thus on such luggage! --Shak.

Syn: Plunder; baggage.

Luggage van, a vehicle for carrying luggage; a railway car, or compartment of a car, for carrying luggage. [Eng.]
Language Translation for : luggage
Spanish: equipaje,
German: das Gepäck; Gepäck-…,
Japanese: 手荷物

luggage 
1596, from lug (v.) "to drag;" so, lit. "what has to be lugged about" (or, in Johnson's definition, "any thing of more bulk than value"). In 20c., the usual word for "baggage belonging to passengers."
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