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発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) enPR: lŭg'ĭj, IPA^(key): /ˈlʌɡɪd͡ʒ/
  • 韻: -ʌɡɪdʒ
  • ハイフネーション: lug‧gage

名詞

luggage (usually uncountable, 複数形 luggages)

1. (uncountable) 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. (uncountable) The contents of such containers.
3. (countable, nonstandard or obsolete) A specific bag or container holding a traveller's belongings.
   • 1858, “Letter from Rev. George L. Seymour”, in The African Repository and Colonial Journal, volume 34, page 13:

     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.

   • 1875, W. G. Willson, Report of the Midnapore and Burdwan Cyclone of the 15th and 16th of October 1874‎^[1]:

     The passengers injured who could not get out were removed out by the railway staff, and then taking part of the luggage the train started back for Burdwan.

   • 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 15:

     Namely, leaving my luggages at the Government hostel, to go straight out by taxi (oh, so slow, compared with our sleek Lagos limousines!) to the famous central Piccadilly Tube station where I took a onestop ticket, went down on the escalator, and then ran up the same steps in the wrong direction.

同意語

• baggage

派生語

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