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- [bag-ij]
- /ˈbæg ɪdʒ/
- /ˈbæɡɪdʒ/
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- [bag-ij]
- /ˈbæg ɪdʒ/
Definitions of baggage word
- uncountable noun baggage Your baggage consists of the bags that you take with you when you travel. 3
- uncountable noun baggage You can use baggage to refer to someone's emotional problems, fixed ideas, or prejudices. 3
- noun baggage suitcases, bags, etc, packed for a journey; luggage 3
- noun baggage (as modifier) 3
- noun baggage an army's portable equipment 3
- noun baggage a pert young woman 3
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Origin of baggage
First appearance:
before 1400 One of the 24% oldest English words
1400-50; late Middle English bagage < Middle French, equivalent to Old French bag(ues) bundles, packs (perhaps < Old Norse; see bag) + -age -age
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Parts of speech for Baggage
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
baggage popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
baggage usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for baggage
noun baggage
- paraphernalia — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
- gear — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- luggage — suitcases, trunks, etc.; baggage.
- tote — Informal. to add up; total.
- things — (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.
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