luggage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.

   August 4, 1726, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey.

2. 2
   noun

   A specific bag or container holding a traveller's belongings.

   I assisted some time ago in cutting up a tree, that made tolerably good turns or luggage for nineteen or twenty persons, which could be procured for about two dollars at the stump.

3. 3
   noun

   cases used to carry belongings when traveling

4. 4
   noun

   The contents of such containers.

Etymology

1590s, lug (“to drag”) + -age, literally “that which is lugged, dragged around”. Duplicate -g- is to clarify pronunciation of the vowel ‘u’ (which is pronounced unchanged from lug). Compare baggage.