Meaning

21 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

    Sackerl, Tüte, Beutel

    паке́тpakét, су́мкаsúmka, мешо́кmešók

    су́мкаsúmka, мішо́кmišók, то́рбаtórba

  2. (countable, uncountable)A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.

  3. (colloquial, countable, uncountable)One's preference.

    Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

    те́маtéma

  4. (countable, derogatory, uncountable)An ugly woman.

    уро́динаuródina, кики́мораkikímora, страхолю́динаstraxoljúdina

    an ugly or ill-tempered woman

  5. (countable, uncountable)The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

    The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

  6. (countable, uncountable)First, second, or third base.

    He headed back to the bag.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

  8. (countable, uncountable)A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

  9. (countable, uncountable)A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

    the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents

  10. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

    (countable, uncountable)An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.

    Meronym: teats

    Her bag is coming in nicely now.

  11. (countable, usually plural, uncountable)The human female breast.

  12. (countable, historical, uncountable)A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

    the quantity that a bag will hold

Examples

2101 sentences
  1. How many bags do you have?

    Скільки у вас сумок? — deniko

    ruСколько у вас сумок? — odexed

    deWie viele Taschen haben Sie? — MUIRIEL

  2. One of my bags is missing.

    У мене пропала одна з сумок. — deniko

    ruУ меня пропала одна из сумок. — odexed

    deEine meiner Taschen fehlt. — Yorwba

  3. Could you show me this bag?

    Ви не могли б показати мені цю сумку? — deniko

    ruМогли бы вы показать мне эту сумку? — Hellerick

    deKönnten Sie mir diese Tasche zeigen? — mayabe

  4. My mother made me a bag.

    Моя мама зробила мені сумку. — deniko

  5. Can I have a paper bag?

    Можна мені паперовий пакет? — deniko

    ruМожно мне бумажный пакет? — afyodor

    deKönnte ich eine Papiertüte haben? — landano

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
flexible container:
Русский
By meaning 4
paper (or plastic) container given or sold to shoppers:
flexible container:
preference:
ugly woman:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
paper (or plastic) container given or sold to shoppers:
flexible container:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (

Inherited from Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin.

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Forms

plural: bags
Singularbag
Pluralbags

regular

Synonyms

118 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes:traveling bagtravelling baggripsuitcase
  • a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women):handbagpocketbookpurse
  • the quantity that a bag will hold:bagful
  • an activity that you like or at which you are superior:cup of teadish
  • mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats):udder
  • a place that the runner must touch before scoring:base

Word family

291 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • bags bags
  • your bags bags
  • my bags bags
  • his bags bags
  • packed his bags
  • duffel bag
  • pack your bags
  • bags bags of
  • the bags bags
  • a duffel bag
  • sleeping bag
  • many bags bags

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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