baggage

Meaning

Noun

  • 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.

Origin

  • From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, from bague, from Germanic (compare bag).

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