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BAGGAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cases used to carry belongings when traveling
Synonyms:
baggage; luggage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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:
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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A worthless or immoral woman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("baggage" is a kind of...):
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Context examples:
Among the great beams, bulks, and ringbolts of the ship, and the emigrant-berths, and chests, and bundles, and barrels, and heaps of miscellaneous baggage—“lighted up, here and there, by dangling lanterns; and elsewhere by the yellow daylight straying down a windsail or a hatchway—were crowded groups of people, making new friendships, taking leave of one another, talking, laughing, crying, eating and drinking; some, already settled down into the possession of their few feet of space, with their little households arranged, and tiny children established on stools, or in dwarf elbow-chairs; others, despairing of a resting-place, and wandering disconsolately.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He said:—And your baggage?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
What was my baggage or Africa to me when I learned that such a fate had come upon my darling?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ma foi! it was a foolish thing, for we came forth from the hedges, and there was naught to guard the baggage had they ridden round behind us.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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)
I have hinted also at the trouble which the Professor's baggage gave us when we left the plateau, and had I described our voyage I might have said a good deal of the worry we had to coax with putrid fish the appetite of our filthy companion.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The whole house of Omer and Joram turned out to bid us good-bye; and there were so many seafaring volunteers in attendance on Steerforth, when our portmanteaux went to the coach, that if we had had the baggage of a regiment with us, we should hardly have wanted porters to carry it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Was your baggage aboard the ship?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On both sides were archers, men-at-arms and knights behind, and in the centre the baggage, with my feather-bed upon a sutler's mule.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There will be no difficulties for you or your baggage.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
