baggage

«baggage» in Mova's school dictionary: The bags and suitcases you take when you travel — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (baggage — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) The bags and suitcases you take when you travel. tree →

2) Worries, bad memories or old problems that a person carries with them from the past (said as a picture). tree →

3) Bag and baggage means taking everything you own and leaving a place completely. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is used at airports: «baggage reclaim», «check in your baggage». In stories, «emotional baggage» tells the reader a character is carrying old hurts. In safety, never leave baggage unattended and never carry a bag for a stranger.

examples

• We collected our baggage from the moving belt. tree →
• Each passenger may bring one piece of baggage. tree →
• Do not leave your baggage alone at the station. tree →
• The baggage was too heavy, so we paid extra. tree →
• Go to baggage reclaim after you land. tree →
• He carried a lot of baggage from his old school, like worry about being teased. tree →
• Our baggage arrived on the wrong plane! tree →
• He takes bag and baggage, and, presto! is gone like a letter into the post. tree →

note

Uncountable: «some baggage», «a piece of baggage», never «a baggage» or «baggages». Similar to luggage (more common in the UK); Americans often say baggage. «Hand baggage» or «carry-on» goes into the plane cabin with you.

In the corpora

• He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmas he layeth up his baggage;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «baggage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.