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- [luhg-ij]
- /ˈlʌg ɪdʒ/
- /ˈlʌɡɪdʒ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [luhg-ij]
- /ˈlʌg ɪdʒ/
Definitions of luggage word
- noun luggage suitcases, trunks, etc.; baggage. 1
- noun luggage Suitcases or other bags in which to pack personal belongings for traveling. 1
- uncountable noun luggage Luggage is the suitcases and bags that you take with you when travel. 0
- noun luggage suitcases, trunks, etc, containing personal belongings for a journey; baggage 0
- noun luggage suitcases, valises, trunks, etc.; baggage 0
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Origin of luggage
First appearance:
before 1590 One of the 37% oldest English words
First recorded in 1590-1600; lug1 + -age
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Luggage
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
luggage popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% 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".
luggage usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for luggage
noun luggage
- baggage — Your baggage consists of the bags that you take with you when you travel.
- 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.
- trunk — the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.
- case — A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
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