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bag
What does bag mean?
bag (noun): a soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use bag in a sentence?
- He stuffed his laundry into a large bag. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce bag?
/bæɡ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does bag come from?
Inherited from Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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