luggage

«luggage» in Mova's school dictionary: the bags and suitcases you take with you 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 (luggage, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

Luggage is the bags and suitcases you take with you when you travel. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and travel, luggage is checked in at airports, put on racks on trains, and must never be left unattended for safety. Phrases: "hand luggage", "carry-on luggage", "luggage label", "baggage reclaim", "pack your luggage".

examples

• We put our luggage in the boot of the car. tree →
• You can take one piece of hand luggage on the plane. tree →
• Never leave your luggage alone at the station. tree →
• Our luggage got lost on the way to Spain. tree →
• Write your name on a luggage label. tree →
• The luggage was too heavy for me to lift. tree →
• We waited for our luggage at the carousel. tree →
• They got down and loaded the horses with the luggage. tree →

note

Uncountable: say "some luggage", "a lot of luggage", "a piece of luggage", never "a luggage" or "luggages". Americans often say "baggage" too. Spelled with double g.

In the corpora

• People with prams, wheelchairs and luggage go first in a station lift, because they cannot use stairs or escalators.

Trees and pragmatics

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