Definition of BAGGAGE

baggage

Plural: baggages

Noun

  • Personal belongings packed in cases for traveling.
  • cases used to carry belongings when traveling
  • a worthless or immoral woman
  • the portable equipment and supplies of an army
  • Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling
  • Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.
  • A woman.
  • An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.

Examples

  • His emotional baggage from the last game was affecting his current strategy.
  • Please put your baggage in the trunk.
  • This person has got a lot of emotional baggage.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, baguage, from bague (“bundle, sack”), of Germanic/North Germanic origin, probably from the same ultimate source as Old Norse baggi (“pack, bundle”). Compare also bag. By surface analysis, bag + -age.

Synonyms

luggage

Scrabble Score: 12

baggage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
baggage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
baggage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

baggage: valid Words With Friends Word