What type of word is luggage?


What type of word is luggage? Items such as luggage, furniture and equipment are generally described as 'noncount' nouns, and are used as being grammatically singular.


Is luggage a count noun?

Both these words are uncountable nouns: Do you have a lot of luggage? Two pieces of luggage have gone missing.


Why is it called luggage?

Also according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word luggage originally meant inconveniently heavy baggage and comes from the verb lug and the suffix -age.


Is luggage a noun or adjective?

luggage noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com.


Is luggage a noun or verb?

luggage noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com.


Is luggage a common noun?

Common nouns are everywhere. Look around you now and you will see many common nouns: door, window, tree, sky, cat, truck, road, computer, phone, bottle, ball, luggage, people, hair.