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# baggage

«baggage» in Mova's school dictionary: **The bags and suitcases you take 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 (baggage — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The bags and suitcases you take when you travel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#m1)

2) Worries, bad memories or old problems that a person carries with them from the past (said as a picture). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#m2)

3) Bag and baggage means taking everything you own and leaving a place completely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is used at airports: «baggage reclaim», «check in your baggage». In stories, «emotional baggage» tells the reader a character is carrying old hurts. In safety, never leave baggage unattended and never carry a bag for a stranger.

### examples

- We collected our baggage from the moving belt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x1)
- Each passenger may bring one piece of baggage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x2)
- Do not leave your baggage alone at the station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x3)
- The baggage was too heavy, so we paid extra. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x4)
- Go to baggage reclaim after you land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x5)
- He carried a lot of baggage from his old school, like worry about being teased. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x6)
- Our baggage arrived on the wrong plane! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x7)
- He takes bag and baggage, and, presto! is gone like a letter into the post. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: «some baggage», «a piece of baggage», never «a baggage» or «baggages». Similar to luggage (more common in the UK); Americans often say baggage. «Hand baggage» or «carry-on» goes into the plane cabin with you.

### In the corpora

- [He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmas he layeth up his baggage;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.244/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «baggage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.