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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
luggage
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a luggage tag
▪ Was there a luggage tag on your suitcase?
hand luggage
left luggage office
luggage rack
unaccompanied bag/luggage etc
▪ The airport X-rays all unaccompanied baggage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hand
▪ I could see her working out how many jars she'd be able to carry in her hand luggage.
▪ Meg succumbed to the biggest smile she had ever seen in her life and surrendered her case and hand luggage with pleasure.
▪ Some can be carried in hand luggage, others must be checked in.
▪ I made one good decision: to wear the trainers on the plane, and carry the paperwork in my hand luggage.
label
▪ The inclusion of an empty leather luggage label simply inscribed Josef Bien is one reminder of her personal involvement.
▪ You will need plain photo album luggage labels.
▪ Ticket wallet containing your personal itinerary, luggage labels and travel information.
rack
▪ Even the luggage racks contained their quota of sailors, soldiers, or airmen.
▪ Each day now Phagu went scouting in the jeep, Kamesh driving, he and I perched up on the luggage rack.
▪ He loaded the bags on to the luggage rack of the Argyll.
▪ I arrived at the station in good time and chained my travel-bag to the luggage rack.
space
▪ Up to 51.4 cubic feet of luggage space for Saloons and 64.0 cubic feet for Estates.
▪ An estate car provides even more luggage space.
▪ There's loads of luggage space and the split-folding rear seats mean the Demio is very practical.
▪ Clever design also ensures that the Safrane offers 10% more basic luggage space than the Renault 25 at 17 cubic feet.
▪ It has no computers-but then it has no luggage space either.
■ VERB
bring
▪ Some bring aboard luggage so large it has its own wheels.
▪ He collapsed about five minutes after the stewards had brought his luggage into his cabin.
carry
▪ I could see her working out how many jars she'd be able to carry in her hand luggage.
▪ He soon got to know the young kids who eked a living by carrying luggage, polishing shoes or running errands.
▪ For a small charge, avoid having to carry luggage by booking it through from airport to destination.
▪ You will carry your luggage back here, double time!
▪ If you can climb stairs carrying your own luggage, and you can swim 25 yards you're a candidate.
▪ He picked up the telephone and asked for his bill to be prepared, and for somebody to carry his luggage.
▪ Some can be carried in hand luggage, others must be checked in.
▪ Being a rookie, one of Baker's jobs was carrying veterans' luggage.
leave
▪ Besides, young Herr Hamnett, apart from having left all his luggage behind, was a gentleman.
▪ It would be necessary to leave my luggage to feed the camels.
lose
▪ Check with your personal policies before buying insurance to cover lost luggage.
▪ An airline named Braniff came back to life three times to haunt passengers with lost luggage.
search
▪ And so pointless: the soldiers never searched the luggage.
▪ Poorer airports, many of which have not introduced the necessary technology, will have to spend longer searching luggage by hand.
take
▪ The coachman took my luggage and called me to hurry up.
▪ As he was saying that, I looked out the window and saw the ground crew taking the luggage off the plane.
▪ He then ignored both of them, walking to the stairs that curved down into the room and taking the luggage up.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
excess baggage/luggage
▪ And psychically speaking, I can't help feeling they carry a little too much excess baggage.
▪ When you had those you could drop, junk and forget the rest, which were only a burden or excess baggage.
▪ With hips at 44.5 inches and thighs at 25 inches, it was no wonder Rudolph had been complaining about excess baggage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A trail of missed connections and mislaid luggage follows these travelers.
▪ Comprehensive ticket wallet including luggage labels, exclusive full colour street map of Amsterdam and detailed travel itinerary.
▪ From now on, we will hand-search more luggage and screen more bags.
▪ He recommends losing as much of Earth's luggage as possible.
▪ I could see her working out how many jars she'd be able to carry in her hand luggage.
▪ Some bring aboard luggage so large it has its own wheels.
▪ There were 28 hijackings of U-S. passenger aircraft in 1972, despite profiling to determine whose carry-on luggage would be X-rayed.
▪ Two other boats followed with his luggage.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
luggage

baggage \bag"gage\ (b[a^]g"g[asl]j), n. [F. bagage, from OF. bague bundle. In senses 6 and 7 cf. F. bagasse a prostitute. See Bag, n.]

  1. The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.

    Note: ``The term itself is made to apply chiefly to articles of clothing and to small personal effects.''
    --Farrow.

  2. The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.

    The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach.
    --Thackeray.

    We saw our baggage following below.
    --Johnson.

    Note: The English usually call this luggage.

  3. Purulent matter. [Obs.]
    --Barrough.

  4. Trashy talk. [Obs.]
    --Ascham.

  5. A man of bad character. [Obs.]
    --Holland.

  6. A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.

    A disreputable, daring, laughing, painted French baggage.
    --Thackeray.

  7. A romping, saucy girl. [Playful]
    --Goldsmith.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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."

Wiktionary
luggage

n. 1 The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings. 2 The contents of such containers.

WordNet
luggage

n. a case used to carry belongings when traveling [syn: baggage]

Wikipedia
Luggage (disambiguation)

Luggage is any number of bags, cases and containers which hold a traveller's articles during transit.

Luggage may also refer to:

  • Green, a colour sometimes referred to as Luggage or Luggage Green
  • The Luggage, fictional object (or organism)
  • Left Luggage, film
  • Luggage of the Gods!, film
  • Luke Lugs Luggage, film
  • Lost Luggage (Decide Your Destiny), book

Usage examples of "luggage".

There was, in that garment bag, undoubtedly a second jumpsuit for Asad Khalil, and he had it on at some point, knowing that baggage handlers would come aboard to collect carry-on luggage.

And if you think I am going to one of the fashionable hotels in a travel-stained dress, and nothing but a small bandbox for luggage, you are very much mistaken, Duke!

Before takeoff, Bluey piled their luggage on top of the now-empty plastic ferry tank.

The roofs were piled high with luggage, and the leading cabman shared his seat with a brass-bound trunk of huge dimensions and extremely sharp corners.

Miss Ray were confusedly over, Caird cleverly extricated the newcomers from the thick of the throng, sheltering them between his large yellow motor car and a hotel omnibus waiting for passengers and luggage.

Just as I was sitting down to dinner, the captain of the boat came for my luggage with a sailor.

Towards evening two sailors came after the rest of the luggage, and thanking my hostess I told Leah to put up my linen, and to give it to her father, who had taken the box of which I was to be the bearer down to the vessel.

At Pampeluna a man named Andrea Capello took charge of me and my luggage, and we set out for Madrid.

Then she rang the bell for the minions and went downstairs to see if Bert and Cec had arrived to carry the luggage.

When we returned to the inn, the landlord informed us that the chevalier had left the city on horseback, as fast as he could gallop, and that a small traveling-bag was all his luggage.

The Deves, who had done nothing to help with the luggage, and both bestrode one of the animals, uttered a call which blended both of their voices.

Underneath the trees a few yards away from the little station we found a bullock-cart, which the Russels had sent for my luggage, and a doolie for myself.

Notwithstanding we thus restricted ourselves, and even loaded the carioles with part of the luggage, instead of embarking in them ourselves, we did not set out without considerable grumbling from the voyagers of both Companies, respecting the overlading of their dogs.

Sonterra tossed my luggage into the back of the Escalade and handed me my cell phone, charger and all.

Instead, as I recovered my senses, I realized the driver had placed my luggage outside the taxi and was standing holding the passenger door open, not, I hasten to add, in any spirit of flunkeydom but merely to expedite my exit.