bag vs portmanteau

portmanteau vs bag

bag and portmanteau both are nouns.

bag is a verb but portmanteau is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bag	Yes	No	Yes	No
portmanteau	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, portmanteau is a hyponym of bag; that is, portmanteau is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bag:

bag: a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
portmanteau: a large travelling bag made of stiff leather

Other hyponyms of bag include carpetbag, garment bag, gripsack, overnight bag, overnight case, overnighter, Gladstone, Gladstone bag, weekender.

bag (noun)	portmanteau (noun)
an activity that you like or at which you are superior	a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)	a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings
a flexible container with a single opening
a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
a place that the runner must touch before scoring
an ugly or ill-tempered woman
the quantity that a bag will hold
the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)

bag (verb)	portmanteau (verb)
put into a bag
capture or kill, as in hunting
take unlawfully
bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
hang loosely, like an empty bag

Difference between bag and portmanteau

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