Meaning of baggage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Luggage, baggage.
2. Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling
   uncountable, usually
3. Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.
   informal, uncountable, usually
4. A woman. Romeo and Juliet, 3.5. Lord Capulet to his daughter, Juliet. "Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday, Or never after look me in the face. Speak not; reply not; do not answer me."
   countable, derogatory, obsolete, usually
5. An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Please put your baggage in the trunk.”

“As soon as they had determined on their course, Ya-nei slid under the bed, and made himself a place among the baggages.”

“Needless to say, one's seat must be booked in advance and a platoon of urbane officials, one to each door of the train, awaits passengers to usher them to their seats and relieve them of their bulkier baggage.”

“Alone, she clings to her baggages on the street.”

“The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.”

“Uncountable synonyms: luggage; gear; stuff”

“Countable synonyms: bags; suitcases”

“This person has got a lot of emotional baggage.”

“[…]How much shall I honour one, who has a stronger propensity to poetry, and has got a greater name in it, if he performs his promise to me of putting away these idle baggages after his sacred espousal.”

“Flynn was so flawed, team Trump was repeatedly warned about his baggage by both then acting AG Sally Yates and President Obama, and even as reported this week, General Flynn himself! But Trump kept standing by him anyway, which kind of makes sense in a way, because literally every decision in the Trump administration is the worst possible one. “Paper or plastic? Whichever one kills the most birds!” “Soup or salad? I’m gonna go with the n-word!” “Favorite Beatle? It’s got to be Yoko!””

“"For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector. It will mean you can have a whole-industry approach to running the railway, unencumbered by contractual differences."”

“Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages) felt for their master--pitied their poor master!”

“But he had a roving eye and a joyous temperament; and though he loved me better than any of the baggages to whom he paid court, he would not visit me so often as he should.”

“But your perverse attempts to wring blushes from little baggages in convenient corners outrage my love of Love!”

“However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.”

“Shall we ask this baggage to sit down or shall we just throw her out of the window?”

“Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and baggages, to Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross.”

“In Poland, for example, the unknown Bolesław Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a ‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.”

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